On May 24, a group of women and children left the tea hill in Uji City, where they worked, without permission and with only the clothes they were wearing, and this is said to be the beginning of okage mairi of the Meiwa era.
4月11日、宇治市から女・子供ばかりの集団が仕事場の茶山から無断ではなれて、着の身着のままやってきたのが明和のお蔭参りの始まりと伝える。