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: Hm, I think I guess the basic mechanics of
: the secreted fertility ceremony part you
: refer to.
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: Does anyone know, is the monarch totally
: alone in that secret part and act, or are
: there some "official witnesses"
: still present?
: To check the success of the performance?
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: About mirrors:
: I have read that the monarch's communing
: with the ancestor Amaterasu takes place
: through those sacred mirrors. How secret
: that aspect then is, or not.
: And some texts add that the mirrors also
: bring all earlier monarchs, the entire queue
: of now more than hundred predecessors, to
: the same communing.
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: The installation ceremony that I mean is
: actually that secret part of the Daijô sai
: where the Emperor communes with the Imperial
: Ancestor, Amaterasu. Although the exact
: nature of the ceremony involved during the
: secret part of the ritual, during which time
: the Emperor is alone with Amaterasu, several
: commentators have pointed out that it
: involves a fertility rite that only a male
: can perform. I am sure that act does not
: need to be spelled out.
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: An act of installation, afaik, is that when
: the new monarch starts to use the regalia,
: particularly those mirrors.
: As much as I am aware, even very young of
: them held those regalia. Some occasions
: appear to be famous in their own right.
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: That there were boy monarchs is without
: doubt,
: but how many of them that you mention had
: actually gone through the installation
: ceremony before coming of age, if any?
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