the traditional event "もっ right [ that ] meal" which the people in an area will gather in the Wajima city in Ishikawa on the morning of the 16th, and eats a bowlful of boiled rice was performed.
it is considered as beginning that the もっ right [ that ] meal ate the rice which the farmer troubled with land tax hid in the year once, and made from the traditional event which gets across to the Wajima city of back noto for it until it was eating one's fill.
the boiled rice which began preparation at 4:00 a.m. in the person's on duty this year house, and was steamed -- "-- it put into the cylindrical wooden frame called もっ right [ that ]", and dished up high in the bowl (bowl).
Although the boiled rice which can be dished up in a bowl could also be 5 gos and 13 persons challenged this year, there was no person who ate completely following last year.
All participants filled the remaining boiled rice in the nest of boxes etc., and brought it home.



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石川・輪島市で１６日朝、地区の人たちが集まって山盛りのご飯を食べる伝統行事「もっそう飯」が行われた。
もっそう飯は奥能登の輪島市に伝わる伝統行事で、年貢に苦しむ農民が、年に一度、隠れて作った米を満腹になるまで食べたのが始まりとされている。
今年の当番の家では午前４時から準備を始め、炊き上がったご飯を「もっそう」と呼ばれる筒状の木枠に入れて、椀（わん）にうずたかく盛りつけていった。
椀に盛りつけられるご飯は５合にもなり、今年は１３人が挑戦したが、去年に続き、完食した人はいなかった。
参加者はみな、残ったご飯を重箱などに詰めて持ち帰った。