When Hososhi went around the Imperial Palace and government offices, court nobles holding bows and an arrows drew their weapons at Hososhi from the stairs in the Seiryoden (Literally Limpid Cool Hall, an imperial summer palace), and tenjobito (high-ranking courtiers allowed into the Imperial Palace) performed exorcism by rolling the handles of den-den drums.
方相氏が大内裏を回るとき、公卿は清涼殿の階(きざはし)から弓矢をもって方相氏に対して弓(武器)をひき、殿上人（でんじょうびと）らは振り鼓(でんでん太鼓)をふって厄を払った。