Hayashida

Japanese: 囃子田 - はやしだ

A type of folk art. A rice planting event accompanied by music on drums, suri sasara, flutes, and dobyōshi. Currently, it remains in the mountainous areas of the Chugoku region, and is called sageta, tabayashi, hanataue, or otaue, depending on the region. In the past, it was held nationwide, and was seen in special large-scale rice planting events such as the kadota of a village headman, the ota of a landowner, or the sacred rice fields of a shrine. Accompanied by music and song, rice planting is a form of incantation to make the autumn harvest more abundant, and is thought to be a common ritual in the evergreen broad-leaved forest culture, and is also seen in Nepal, Tibet, and Jindo in Korea.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

民俗芸能の一種。太鼓，すりささら，笛，銅鈸子（どびようし）などで囃しながら行う田植行事。現在中国地方の山間部に残り，地方によりサゲ田，田囃子，花田植，大田植などの名で呼ばれる。古くは全国的に行われ，名主（みようしゆ）の門田（かどた）や，地主の大田，神社の神田などの特殊な規模の大きな田植で見られた。田植を楽や歌で囃すことは，秋の実りをより豊かにする呪術で，照葉樹林文化圏共通の儀礼と思われ，ネパール，チベットや韓国の珍島（ちんとう）などでも見られる。

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