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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Tauchimai shinji
Text
"Plowing dance rite."  A rite held February 17 at Samukawa Shrine in Samukawa Township, Kōza District, Kanagawa Prefecture, also known as fukutanemaki ("sowing the seeds of fortune"). At the hall of worship (haiden), a priest (shinshoku) wearing the mask of an old man (okina) chants and dances using a branch of sakaki and a fan (ōgi) as props (torimono) as he pantomimes tilling the fields and sowing seeds. The festival is a prayer for an abundant harvest in which seed rice is scattered in the four directions. The ritual is similar to the otaue matsuri (field-planting festival), onda jinji (field rite), and ta'asobi jinji (field-play rite) rites.
— Mogi Sakae

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