What is the meaning of the rotating? Why don’t they just put the boxes down and pick them up directly? I know it’s probably kind of a traditional part of the ceremony but what is the explanation? How did this tradition start? [Here](https://youtu.be/RZsmnUyzc5k?t=104) is the footage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/15jk3ye/why_do_they_rotate_the_regalia_during_emperors/
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Because “regally rotate the royal regalia” sounds better than “pick up and plop the posh paraphernalia”.
Probably similar to why they do it in tea ceremony.
In tea ceremony the person prepares the tea with the decorative “front” facing the drinker. When the drinker receives the tea they turn the bowl 180 so the decorative side is facing out again. Only you’re not going to make the emperor turn the thing himself so they go through the show of turning it for him.
The boxes in that image, are those the sword/mirror/jewel? Has the Emperor ever seen those?