英語訳
Three grades are placed on small stands and arranged together with three sake cups. For the lower-ranking servants, about four or five earthenware vessels are placed on flat serving trays and brought out.
Therefore, there are no dried abalone, kelp, or pounded chestnuts. At this time, since raw fish, soybeans, herring roe, shrimp, etc. are arranged together in one place and brought out, the offering
ceremony is not fully performed. However, after the third offering, lacquered sake cups with heavy delicacies {{Note: herring roe, etc. are brought out as replacements}} sacred sake {{Note: cold sake is put in sake servers; about two people whom the administrator speaks with, one of whom wears purification robes and serves as the pouring attendant}}
{{Note: high and low ranks}} The second offering is rice soup without rice cakes, with taro, radish, tied kelp and skewered abalone as toppings placed in earthenware vessels, side dishes of raw fish placed in
small earthenware vessels, soybeans the same as before, with chopsticks added. All of the above are placed on large wooden boards and displayed. After the sake servers are brought out, everyone takes up chopsticks. Most importantly, for the sake cups from the second to fifth offerings, about four earthenware vessels are placed on offering stands and brought out, using one at a time. However, for the lower-ranking servants, only rice soup is brought out, placed on flat serving trays. Sacred sake {{Note: warm sake put in pewter vessels}} The third offering consists of frozen crucian carp {{Note: placed on the left side of earthenware vessels}} split shrimp
{{Note: placed on the right side of small stands}} herring roe {{Note: placed in the center of small earthenware vessels}} etc. placed on large wooden boards {{Note: replacing the second offering for display; sake servers same as before}} Sacred sake {{Note: same as before}} The fourth offering has two mirror rice cakes
placed on offering stands, with bracken fern spread underneath, along with twenty small rice cakes, one diamond-shaped rice cake each, one piece of kelp, one citrus fruit, about five pounded chestnuts, sacred horse
grass in two bundles, one string of skewered persimmons {{Note: ten fingers}} one set of shrimp piled on the mirror rice cakes. However, although the fourth offering is recorded thus, the aforementioned mirror
rice cakes are offerings for the sacred horse. Therefore, the master teacher stands behind the sacred horse, removes these, and brings them before the mirror administrator. After
that, the master teacher has a communion feast. Sacred sake {{Note: same as before}} The fifth offering is soup {{Note: clams placed in earthenware vessels, replacing the third offering}} At this time, lacquered sake cups are brought out. Sacred sake
{{Note: same as before}} However, at this time it circulates many times. The aforementioned offering ceremony is entirely a banquet for the stable administrator. When finished, the second, third, and
fifth offerings are distributed individually by type. Most importantly, for the sake cups, even the second offering begins with the administrator and is passed to the head of the horse leaders, then likewise
passed from the junior member to the inspector. At the time of the third offering, since it should begin with the horse leaders, the administrator through courtesy
begins with the head of the horse leaders and passes it to the administrator, then to the junior horse leader, then to the inspector. At the time of the fourth
offering, since it should begin with the junior horse leader, through courtesy it passes from the junior to the senior {{Note: same as before}} then to
the administrator, then to the inspector. For the fifth offering, as in the beginning, it is passed in order from the administrator. When finished, sacred sake is also given
to the bathhouse elder.
The aforementioned offering ceremony concludes and reaches the appointed time {{Note: the announcement extends to seven and a half times}} Leading out from the sacred horse stable {{Note: first two shrine servants carrying torches go ahead, followed by the white horse, grooms, and master teacher in standing court caps and purification robes, passed from the administrator, along with the head priest}}