I think the Shinto priest's congratulatory prayer was marvelous as expected.
But recently some people don't do the ceremony, I heard.
Yes, it seems that the number of those who do not perform the ceremony is increasing.
They may think that the land does not belong to a deity rather to people who have paid money for.
You have to spend money additionally if you perform the ceremony, so there are certainly those who omit the ceremony.
But I like the mindset of Japanese people who think they have deity's favor in using the land.
By the way, how long ago did the ceremony start to be performed?
It does not seem to be known exactly when the ceremony began.
According to records, Chronicles of Japan described the details of the oldest ceremony.
Around which year did the record of Nihonshoki describe about?
It was in the era of Empress Jito, more than 1300 years ago, in the late seventh century.
It was after the late Edo period when people started to perform the ceremony like today.