List of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Columns: Name | Date | Remarks | Location
Spring Hoe Festival of Higoshi Shinmei Shrine ( 樋越神明宮の春鍬祭 , higoshi shinmei-gū no haru kuwa matsuri ) | February 11 | Spring hoe festival including theatrical performances of various stages of the farming process . Seen as a prayer for abundant crops , the festival 's earliest record is from 1798 | Shinmei Shrine , Tamamura , Gunma | Bonito Fishing Festival of Kōzushima ( 神津島のかつお釣り行事 , kōzushima no katsuo tsuri gyōji ) | August 2 | Using a crude model boat of aotake ( green bamboo ) , within the shrine precincts , bonito fishermen are simulating all stages of their work from departure , over fishing to return to the port . This is seen as a prayer for a good catch | Monoiminamikoto Shrine , Kōzushima , Tokyo | | Spiral Rice Planting of Sado ( 佐渡の車田植 , sado no kuruma taue ) | end of May | Seedlings are planted in a circular fashion by three or four workers while singing | Sado , Niigata | Oku-noto no Aenokoto ( 奥能登のあえのこと ) | February 9 and December 5 | Agricultural festival of rice farmers on the Noto Peninsula in which the deity of the rice field is invited to the house and entertained . The December event is to express gratitude for the harvest , while the event in February is meant to ensure an abundant harvest . The ritual has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | Okunoto , Ishikawa | Mibu Rice Planting ( 壬生の花田植 , mibu no hana taue ) | first Sunday in June | Rice-planting ritual starting with a performance of hayashi musicians welcoming the kami of the fields and decorated cows being led into the field . A phalanx of planting girls then carries out the actual planting accompanied by ondo songs , large and small drums , gongs and flutes . The event has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | Kitahiroshima , Hiroshima | Farming Rituals of Aso ( 阿蘇の農耕祭事 , aso no nōkō saiji ) | 13th day of first month and 25th day of 9th month ( Aso Shrine ) ; 16th day of first month and 23rd , 24th days of 9th month ( Kuninomiyako Shrine ) | A series of agricultural festivals associated with the four seasons and enacted as a prayer for abundant crops and as a thanks for the harvest , among these : rice field festival ( onda matsuri ) , making the field ( tatsukuri ) , fire swinging ritual ( hifuri shinji ) , fūchinsai , nemurinagashi rite , hitaki fire rite , and the tanomi festival | Aso , Kumamoto | Tanegashima Hōman Shrine Rice planting Festival ( 種子島宝満神社の御田植祭 , tanegashima hōman jinja no otaue matsuri ) | April 3 | Ritual rice planting event accompanied by song and drums as a prayer for an abundant harvest | Minamitane , Kagoshima | Yoronjima bashōfu ( fibre banana ) cloth manufacture craft ( 与論島の芭蕉布製造技術 , yoronjima no bashōfu seizō gijutsu ) | - | Harvesting and processing of the Japanese fibre banana for the production of textiles by weaving on Yoronjima island | Yoron , Yoronjima , Ōshima District , Kagoshima

Example questions:
What is the population of the prefecture where the Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property called the spiral rice planting festival takes place ? | What is the population of the prefecture where the December 5 festival on the list of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties takes place ? | The April event on the list of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties occurs in which district ? | What kind of fish does the August festival on the list of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties celebrate ?

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