such ritual performed during the emperor's accession was the sokui kanjō (即位灌頂, "Abhiṣeka of Enthronement"), in which various mudras and mantras were ritually...

Emperor Shōmu. This portrait depicts Emperor Go-Daigo undergoing the Abhisheka (灌頂, kanjō) ceremony of the Shingon Buddhism in 1330, and is said to have been...