Mibu no Hanadaue, Japan’s Most Spectacular Rice Planting Ritual

Every year on the first Sunday of June, the rolling green hills north of Hiroshima city host one of the

Mibu Handaue rice planting festival held in Kita-hiroshima for the first time in 3 years

Mibu Hanadaue rice planting festival, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, was held for the first time in 3 years in Kita-hiroshima, May 5.

The Mibu no Hanadaue ritual rice planting festival in Chiyoda, Kitahiroshima, is the largest and most spectacular of many similar

Mibu-no-hanadaue is a revived rice planting ritual that dates back to the Middle Ages and is reenacted on the first