Ceremony to harvest rice for the “Okuma Festival” Shimane Ota September 15 20:16
A ceremony was held in Ota City, Shimane Prefecture, in connection with the Emperor's throne, to harvest rice for the traditional ceremonial “Oyodo Festival” held in November this year.
For the first time after the Emperor ’s throne, the “Oyodo Festival” is a ritual for offering freshly harvested cereals to the gods and praying for the country's and people's well-being and the harvest of rice. Will be.
In Shimane Prefecture, Masayuki Nakaso, representative of an agricultural production corporation in Daejeon, was selected as a cereal giver for rice. It was.
In the rice field where rice was planted in May, the ear of rice was growing quickly, and the priest gave a congratulatory message and thanked for the harvest. Participants entered the rice field with scythe and carefully harvested rice from the roots.
The harvested rice is naturally dried over the assembled trees and will be presented at the end of next month.
Mr. Masayuki Nakaso, who cultivated, said, “I think it was quite good to grow a solid rice.