{"id":125,"date":"2008-06-06T19:15:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-02-11T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:23:18","slug":"rice-planting-festivals-in-yasu-and-taga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/rice-planting-festivals-in-yasu-and-taga\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice-planting festivals in Yasu and Taga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlETZh-jh7k?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I went to see two rice-planting festivals in Shiga, for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The first one was in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Yasu,_Shiga\">Yasu<\/a> on May 25, 2008. It&#8217;s held on the fourth Sunday in May in a sacred rice paddy near Mikami Shrine. Women and men in colorful costumes plant rice seedlings accompanied by singing, taiko drumming, and dancing. Started at 10 am with a Shinto ceremony, then the rice planting was held from 10:30 am to 11 am. The rice paddy is called Yuki Saiden (\u60a0\u7d00\u658e\u7530\u8a18\u5ff5\u7530) which was the used to produce the rice used for the Showa Emperor Hirohito&#8217;s accession to the throne in 1928. It was a scenic area with Mt. Mikami in the background. Near Yamade-mae bus stop near the foot of Mt. Mikami.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More photos here.<\/a>&nbsp;Video link:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JlETZh-jh7k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/JlETZh-jh7k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/yasu\/taue\/ri052-20080525_4407.jpg\" alt=\"Yasu rice-planting festival\" width=\"347\" height=\"231\"><\/p>\n<p>The second rice-planting festival was at Taga Taisha Shrine on June 1, 2008. It was more elaborate than at Yasu, with stage performances of taiko drumming and sacred dances. But they required a 500 yen donation to watch the rice-planting. It started at 1:15 pm and ended at 3 pm. The rice paddies were left unfinished though.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=690\">More photos here<\/a>. Video link:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mbZbS9dYZmI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/mbZbS9dYZmI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mbZbS9dYZmI?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/taga-cho\/taue\/ta051-20080601_5528.jpg\" alt=\"Taga Taisha rice-planting\" width=\"350\" align=\"bottom\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see two rice-planting festivals in Shiga, for the first time. The first one was in Yasu on May 25, 2008. It&#8217;s held on the fourth Sunday in May in a sacred rice paddy near Mikami Shrine. Women&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer","category-taga","category-yasu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}