On January 1, at about 5:30 in the morning, the Emperor, wearing a traditional formal court dress called Korozen no go-ho, would enter a building constructed in the southern garden of Shinka-den, which is located west of the Three Shrines in the Imperial Court, whereupon he would bow toward the direction of two shrines--Ko-tai jingu Shrine and Toyouke Dai-jingu Shrine of Ise-jingu Shrine--and pray to spirits in various directions.
元日の午前5時30分に、今上天皇が黄櫨染御袍と呼ばれる束帯をお召しになり、皇居の宮中三殿の西側にある神嘉殿の南の庭に設けられた建物の中に入り、伊勢神宮の皇大神宮・豊受大神宮の二宮に向かって拝礼した後、続いて四方の諸神を拝する。