The Obutsymyō (御仏名) ceremony was a court rite carried out from the nineteenth to the twenty-second day of the Twelfth Month every year. Before a screen depicting the horrors of Hell, priests would chant the name of the Buddha in a plea for the court to be pardoned for the sins they had committed during the past year. Part of the decorations for this ceremony were artificial flowers made from wood shavings (kezuribana 削り花), and it is one of these that Sanekata has obtained.