Since it started raining heavily on this day, many of the nobles went home in the middle of the ceremony while the common people flocked to the very long 'strings of good' seven-cho (approximately 763.63m) in length, which were tied to the ceremony brush, in order to form a relationship with the Great Buddha.
この日は儀式の最中に大雨となり、貴族の中には途中で帰ってしまった者が多くいたが、一方民衆は、大仏の縁にすがろうと、開眼の筆に結び付けられていた七町ものながいながい「善の綱」に群がった。