Daijô-sai
Daijô-sai. The first First Fruits Ceremony (Niiname-sai) following the accession of a new emperor in Japan. The entire sequence of official preparations and performances, promulgated during the 10th cent., is contained in Engi-shiki Procedures of the Engi Era [Books VI-X], tr. F. Bock (1970), 27–56.
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