Japan’s Emperor Sows Rice at Imperial Palace
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The Emperor sows rice seeds at the Imperial Palace on Tuesday.
12:59 JST, April 12, 2023
The Emperor performed the annual tradition of sowing rice in a seedbed on the grounds of the Imperial Palace on Tuesday.
Clad in a gray jacket and navy blue trousers, the Emperor crouched and carefully sowed two rice cultivars: regular short-grain rice Nihonmasari and glutinous rice Mangetsumochi.
Around mid-May, the Emperor will transfer these rice seedlings to a rice paddy at the palace.
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