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Aenokoto takes place on December 5 and February 9 at the Yanagida Botanical Park in the town of Noto. The old farmhouse on the site was damaged in the January 2024 Noto Earthquake. After a two-year hiatus, the ceremony is set to resume in 2026. (© Shimozato Kazurō/Haga Library)
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A family offers food and drink to the tanokami, represented here by bales of seed rice and a forked daikon radish. (© Haga Hideo)
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The photo of aenokoto seen by Yanagita for the first time. (Property of the Nomoto family/Courtesy Kikuchi Akira)
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Aenokoto at the Nomoto home, photographed by Haga Hideo in 1954. (© Haga Hideo)
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A Hanami district family welcoming the deity. (© Haga Hideo)
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In this family, a forked daikon radish representing the divine spirit was bathed reverently. (© Haga Hideo)
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The family later partook of the food offerings to the deity. (© Haga Hideo)
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A group welcomes the deity in front of Maruyama hill, presenting a list of the living creatures monitored during the past year to represent the divine spirit. Offerings later enjoyed by the group included bread made from rice flour. (Courtesy Maruyama-gumi)
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Harvesting rice at Shiroyone Senmaida, a steep hillside containing over 1,000 terraced rice paddies, in 1953. (© Haga Hideo)
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Welcoming the tanokami to Senmaida in 2002. The slope was heavily damaged in the 2024 earthquake, and restoration work is ongoing. (© Kikuchi Akira)
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