Original sentence: Surrounded by courtiers, the emperor solemnly enters first the enclosure and then each of these huts in turn and performs the same ritual--from 6:30 to 9:30 PM in the first, and in the second from 12:30 to 3:30 AM--on the same night.The Daijo-sai or the Great Thanksgiving Festival is the third and most important--and also the most controversial--of the inauguration rituals, because it is the one in which the emperor is united to his Imperial Ancestress in such a way as to share in a unique way in her divinity.The new emperor is formally presented with boxes containing the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan: (1) a replica sword representing the sword  Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (lit
Edited sentence: Surrounded by courtiers, the emperor solemnly enters first the enclosure and then each of these huts in turn and performs the same ritual—from 6:30 to 9:30 PM in the first, and in the second from 12:30 to 3:30 AM—on the same night.The Daijo-sai or the Great Thanksgiving Festival is the third and most important—and also the most controversial—of the inauguration rituals, because it is the one in which the emperor is united to his Imperial Ancestress in such a way as to share in a unique way in her divinity.The new emperor is formally presented with boxes containing the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan: (1) a replica sword representing the sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (lit