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The Japanese Imperial Household Agency holds Shinto rituals based on Shinto tradition. One of the reasons why I write about the Imperial Household Agency is that one of the researchers, the late Dr. Junichi Kamata, one of the high ranking officials in the Imperial Household Agency, strongly denied Origuchi’s doctrine and called it nothing but a “joke.” And, there was another prominent researcher in the field of Shinto, named the late Dr. Katsuyoshi Watanabe who knew the late Dr. Junichi Kamata very well. The Japanese Imperial Household Agency provides only limited information for anyone because the late Dr. Junichi Kamata abided by the confidential regulation of the agency.

However, he admitted that in terms of the interpretation of one of the most important rituals, “Daijo-sai,” which is a part of the enthronement ceremony of Tenno, the late Dr. Katsuyoshi Watanabe had the only correct understanding of Daijo-sai so far. The late Dr. Watanabe received his PhD at Kyushu University with his Doctorate thesis, “Chikon-Sai no Kenkyu: Study on Chinkon-Sai, the soul appeasing ceremony held on the previous day of Daijo-sai.” Daijo-sai is the indispensable ceremony of the newly enthroned Tenno in which after the last emperor’s death, Tenno has new holy rice with Amaterasu-Oh-Mikami, the head of deities in the Firmament first, and then Tenno has the new sacred rice with the deity in Hades. After the ceremony, only Tenno has the right to serve these deities, which means Tenno is able to become the authentic successor of the former Tenno.

Dr. Origuchi ignored these processes of enthronement ceremony, and insisted, “Daijo-sai is the ceremony, in which the soul of ex-Tenno, “Great Tama,” is implanted into the flesh of the new Tenno. As a result, the new Tenno himself will become a deity.” Origuchi’s naïve theory was welcomed by the Showa Militaristic Regime, which looked for the pretext to force the general public to directly worship Tenno as a god. Thanks to Origuchi, the Showa Militaristic Regime could invent this fabrication.