In case that when they left or came home, a specific Hoi-jin God (directional gods believed to govern people's fortune, both good and bad, descending from heaven on a certain day, travelling from one direction to another in a prescribed order, and returning to their celestial abode) presided over the direction of their destination, people stayed overnight at another site and the next day they would go to the destination from a different direction in order to avoid the tabooed direction.
外出または帰宅の際、目的地に特定の方位神がいる場合に、いったん別の方角へ行って一夜を明かし、翌日違う方角から目的地へ向かって禁忌の方角を避けた。