In the ceremony, fans and tanzaku (long, narrow card on which Japanese poems are written vertically) were placed on the three Giccho (a Japanese ancient game similar to Hockey) sticks tied to the vertical green bamboo poles, and a Yin Yang master burned them while he was singing and playing musical accompaniment.
青竹を束ねて立て毬杖三本を結び、その上に扇子や短冊などを添え、陰陽師が謡いはやしながらこれを焼いた。