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The Yomiuri Shimbun Women in tea-picking outfits dance at the Kanaya tea festival in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, on April 8.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
16:10 JST, May 15, 2023
SHIMADA, Shizuoka — The Kanaya tea festival held last month heralded the first tea harvest of the season in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture. The city is a leading tea production area.
About 500 girls and women dressed in tea pickers’ signature outfit — a patterned kimono with a bright-red tasuki sash and a tenugui kerchief covering the head — paraded through a street near JR Kanaya Station. They danced to folk songs such as “Chakkiri-bushi” and “Kanaya Ondo” in what was the first day of the two-day event.
The association to preserve and promote the festival held the biennial event after a five-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Spectators also came to see various floats pulled by youths.
