Additionally, as a ritual in the Jotoshiki (roof-laying ceremony), which is held when a house is newly built, a set of bow and arrow is planted on an altar set up on the housetop in the direction of the Kimon ('demon's gate'; the northeast of one's position, superstitiously believed to be unlucky) in order to expel evil influence.
このほか、住宅を新築した際の上棟式に呪いとして鬼門に向けて棟の上に弓矢を立てる。