shrine ritual for a good harvest; early-year harvest prayer
A shrine ritual held within the first two months of the year to pray for or forecast a successful rice harvest. Often involves symbolic rice planting.
At this shrine, the rice-planting festival is held every year in February.
seasonal rice planting on shrine land
Refers to the actual seasonal planting of rice in a field affiliated with a shrine, often as a community or ritual event.
The parishioners gathered and held the rice-planting festival in the shrine's paddy field.