Especially, the devastation of rice fields in Takamanohara must have been sinful because rice has been sanctified since the time when the Japanese had begun or introduced cultivation of rice, at least in the early Yayoi age. In a sense, rice production was main means of living for the ancient Japanese people. Thus, in autumn, we can find a lot of harvest festivals for gratitude to a deity of rice in farming villages all over Japan as well as in the Chotei, in which the Tennow has performed a traditional ceremony for rice harvest every year.
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