Japan’s Emperor Sows Rice at Imperial Palace

The Yomiuri Shimbun

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.