DATE:		June 10, 2007
PLACE:		68 Fukakusa Yabunouchi-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto
DIRECTION:		Keihan Main Line to Fushimi-Inari Station or JR Nara Line to Inari Station
TEL:		81-75-641-7331
ADMISSION:		Free
TEXT:		Taue-sai is a Shinto ritual in which seedlings of rice seeds planted during the preceding Minakuchi Hashu Festival on April 12 are replanted in the shrine's sacred rice field. Following a ceremony in the main hall, some 30 saotome (rice-planting maidens) wearing red tasuki (sashes used to hold up kimono sleeves) and sugegasa (sedge hats) plant the seedlings while kagurame (female shrine attendants) clad in Heian-style costumes perform the elegant ondamai (rice field dance) in the sacred field.