Visitors purchase koyamaki (Japanese Umbrella-pine) branches on the approach to the temple, write the posthumous Buddhist names of their ancestors on wooden mizutoba tablets which they purify using water before ringing the mukaegane bell.
参道でコウヤマキを購入、水塔婆に戒名を書いて頂き、清め、迎え鐘を衝く。