15 March: Traditional private abdication rituals. Jingū-ni-Hohei-no-gi (神宮に奉幣の儀) Imperial messengers and priests made offerings and reported Emperor Akihito's...

myōjin taisha shrines, it turned to a practice called kinen kokuhouhei (祈年穀奉幣) which involved making offerings only to the most prominent of these shrines...

as opposed to those who came into being as male-female pairs. Hōhei/hōbei (奉幣, lit. 'money offering') – Offerings made to a kami, usually consisting in...