festivals & rites
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taue-sai 田 植え祭
rice planting festival


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Otaue-sai or taue-sai includes a special dance known as otaue-odori and is held at rice-planting time in May orJune in all parts of Japan to pray for a good rice crop and successful harvest. Yasu City in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Shintô rites
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Shintô priests / wooden sceptre (shaku) - Yasu City
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local dignitaries / Yasu City
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Shintô priest  (2)
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rice farmers + priests
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Shintô priest  (3)
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Shintô priests beside torii  (4)
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Shintô priests  (5)
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torii
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Shintô priest  (6)
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blessed rice seedlings for the rice field
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blessed rice seedlings for the rice field  (2)
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blessed rice seedlings for the rice field  (3)
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rice-planting with dance and music
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rice-planting = taue - see also cultivation of rice
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rice-planting  (2)
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rice-planting  (3)
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rice-planting dance = taue-odori
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rice-planting dance  (2)
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rice-planting dance  (3)
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rice-planting  (4)
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rice-planting woman = taue-onna
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dancer - portrait
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rice-planting dance  (4)
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rice-planting  (5)
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rice-planting dance  (5)
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rice-planting - rice field
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rice-planting  (6)
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rice-planting  (7)
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drum group in front of a the torii
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drum group in front of torii  (2)
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drum group  (3)
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drum group  (4)
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