also: とおかや
noun
Harvest festival on the night of October 10th (lunar calendar); ritual to send rice paddy gods back to the mountains
A traditional Japanese harvest festival held on the tenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, marking the end of the agricultural season and bidding farewell to the rice paddy deities.
十日夜には、子どもたちが藁で作った棒で地面を叩いて回る風習がある。
On Tōkanya, there is a custom where children go around hitting the ground with straw sticks.
十日夜は、田の神様が山へ帰る日とされている。
Tōkanya is considered the day when the rice paddy gods return to the mountains.
Literally 'tenth day night', from 十日 (tenth day) and 夜 (night). The reading とおかんや is a euphonic change from とおかや, with an inserted ん.