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300-Year-Old Burdock Festival Held in Central Japan for Bountiful Harvest
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300-year-old burdock festival held in central Japan for bountiful harvest
A traditional festival dating back more than 300 years, in which participants pray for a bountiful harvest by eating large servings of burdock from a vermilion bowl, was held Tuesday in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, in central Japan.
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On the 17th, the unique festival "Soda Shogatsu 17th Day Festival" (Goboko), in which people pray for a good harvest by eating a mountain of burdock root in a vermilion bowl, was held in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture. This is a traditional event that has been going on for over 300 years since the Edo period. About 20 men wearing haori and hakama gathered at a private home and ate burdock root dishes while drinking sake.
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