Tayasumi – Resting after the rice is planted

After everyone's rice planting is done, its time for Tayasumi (田休み) – a brief rest festival. In my hamlet this it is just the neighbors getting together for a freshly foraged bamboo-shoot soup picnic.

Of course, that "yasumi" (rest) is only in the morning. By 1 pm the party is cleared out and everyone is back in the fields.