World’s largest mosaic gives Japan a Guiness Record!

Japan can add a new Guiness record, thanks to a poet who born long time ago.

A portrait of a poet from Yamaguchi Prefecture, made of 120,000 photos of smiling faces, was certified as the world’s largest photo mosaic by the Guinness Book of World Records on Friday.

The 31.78-meter-long, 42.82-meter-wide picture of Misuzu Kaneko, who was born in Nagato, Yamaguchi, in 1903, was created by the local chamber of commerce to promote the city.

Around 220 residents laid out the photos, which were collected on various occasions, such as a professional baseball game that provided many smiling faces of the audience, and were also contributed from overseas, on Dec. 31, taking more than six hours.

The chamber of commerce decided to use the photos of smiling faces as Kaneko noted in her poetry, “Everyone is different, and everyone is great.”

A chamber official said, “Smiling faces in the mosaic are different from each other, and all of them are great.”

The previous record photo mosaic had some 113,000 photos.

Source: AP / Kyodo via Breitbart / Official site

Good for Yamaguchi residents. They got a Guiness Record and smiled for the world.

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