1. gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient JapanArchaic
2. UtagakiUtagaki (歌垣), also read kagai, was an ancient Japanese ritual peasant gathering. Villagers would sing and dance on the way up to a mountaintop, where singing, dancing, eating, and the reciting of poetry would occur, in celebration of the beginning of spring or autumn. Closely associated with harvest rites, and therefore fertility, these events often also led into much free sexual activity.
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