A portrait of poet Misuzu Kaneko, made of 120,000 photos of smiling faces, was certified as the world’s largest photo mosaic by The Guinness Book of World Records. The 31.78-meter-long, 42.82-meter-wide picture of the poet, who was born in Nagato, Yamaguchi in 1903, was created by the local chamber of commerce to promote the city. Approximately 220 residents laid out the photos, which were collected on various occasions, such as a professional baseball game that provided many smiling faces for the work. 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.” The previous record photo mosaic had some 113,000 photos.
