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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Shirongo masturi
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A festival for women divers (ama) held July 11 at Shirohige Shrine in Toba City, Mie Prefecture. Early in the morning, divers from the Shima area gather on the beach and at the sound of a conch shell begin an abalone collecting competition. A ceremony is held in which the first pair of black and red abalone to be found are presented at the altar. The diver who collects these first abalone shells becomes the head of the divers for the following year.
— Mogi Sakae

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