Prior to the rite of the Kannamesai, the emperor bows the knee to Ise-jingu Shrine from away in the southern peripheral space of Shinka-den, one of the Three Shrines in the Imperial Court.
神嘗祭の儀式に先立って、天皇は宮中三殿の神嘉殿南庇で神宮を遥拝する。