Kitaushima

...This ceremony is held to welcome the descent of the rice god, and involves singing rice planting songs. It is a ritual connected to other ceremonies such as Otaue and Hanataue, and the example of this in Kita-Ushima, Sado, is well known. There is also a method of planting rice in the opposite direction, where rice is planted from the outside of the rice field along the ridges to the center, which is called mawariue in Iwate and Akita prefectures.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kita-Ushima" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…田の神の降臨を迎え，田植歌などを唱和しながら行われる。大田植や花田植などの儀礼に連なる儀礼で，佐渡の北鵜島の例が著名である。なお，この逆に，畝に沿って田の外側から中央へ植えていく田植の方法もあり，岩手･秋田県下ではマワリウエと呼んでいる。…

※「北鵜島」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。

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