On every New Year's Day, Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") of the Edo bakufu dispatched hatamoto (direct retainers of the bakufu) called koke (privileged family under Tokugawa Shogunate) to Kyoto to make New Year's greetings to the emperor and the retired emperor.
毎年正月には幕府征夷大将軍は、高家という旗本たちを派遣して京都の天皇と上皇に対して年賀を奏上する。