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...
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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...
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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...
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