Kumamoto Prefecture
Aso no Otaue
Aso's prayers for a bountiful harvest, with mikoshi and Ota-uta songs winding through the green rice fields
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Gifu Prefecture・Gero City
Gero’s Tanokami Festival
A traditional Gero festival entrusting prayers for a good harvest to hanagasa hats and rice-field performing arts
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Fukushima Prefecture・Tanagura Town
Tsutsukowake Shrine Otaue
An ancient rice-field ritual dance in Tanagura, depicting a bountiful harvest on a taiko drum
Saitama Prefecture・Yoshikawa City
Kibai Kumano Shrine Miya-nage
A New Year’s Miya-nage, with rice crackers thrown at one another, passed down in Kibai, Yoshikawa
Niigata Prefecture・Sado City
Koheiji Shrine Ta-asobi Shinto Ritual
Sado’s Ta-asobi ritual, depicting hopes for a good harvest in the worship hall’s rice paddy
Aichi Prefecture・Okazaki City
Denden Gassari
An Okazaki agricultural ritual that entrusts hopes for a good harvest to a large kagami mochi and the actions of an ox