Sweet Potato Comparison Festival - Sweet Potato Comparison Festival

Japanese: 芋くらべ祭 - いもくらべまつり
Sweet Potato Comparison Festival - Sweet Potato Comparison Festival

...However, in the history of Japanese farmers and food, which focuses on rice, research into its significance has not progressed sufficiently. The true nature of Japan's non-rice-growing culture will become clear through analysis of the folk customs of "New Year without rice cakes," the "Imokurabe Festival" held on September 1st in Nakayama, Hino-cho, Gamo-gun, Shiga Prefecture, and the festival held on September 19th of the lunar calendar at Kurashima Shrine in Daijo, Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture. [Tsuboi Hirofumi]...

*Some of the terms used in relation to the "Sweet Potato Comparison Festival" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし米を中心にした日本の農民史や食物史などでは,その意義について十分に研究が進んでいない。〈餅なし正月〉の民俗や,滋賀県蒲生郡日野町中山で9月1日におこなわれる〈芋くらべ祭〉,岡山県新見市代城の倉嶋神社でおこなわれる旧暦9月19日の祭りなどの分析によって,日本の非稲作文化の実態が明らかになることであろう。【坪井 洋文】。…

※「芋くらべ祭」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Potatoes

>>:  Imokawa - Imokawa

Recommend

Calico [mountain] - Calico

... The existence of a prehistoric culture older ...

Sidney Lanier

1842‐81 American poet, musician, and critic. Born ...

axe-adze (English spelling) axeadze

...Examples include the Danish Mesolithic, Swiss ...

Uraginhyomon (English spelling) High brown fritillary

This butterfly belongs to the order Lepidoptera a...

stay-in

...When trade unions had a monopoly on the supply...

Echeveria gibbiflora (English spelling)

… [Hiroshi Yuasa]. … *Some of the terminology tha...

Modulor (English spelling)

A system of scale invented and proposed by Le Corb...

haliaia

…The word agora comes from the verb meaning to ga...

Gangoji Temple Gokurakubo Main Hall

…The following are representative examples of the...

European and American flora

A group of plants that was distributed mainly in E...

Pica - Eating Disorder

Also known as dysphagia or dysgeusia. Repeated eat...

garmon' (English spelling) garmon

...The balalaika is a new instrument that appeare...

Kōkalos (English spelling) Kokalos

...He became king thanks to a bull that appeared ...

IMPATT diode

A semiconductor device that uses the avalanche phe...