 In September in ancient Calendar, she performed the Kannamesai Festival to make offerings to the kami of the year's new grain harvest.For the rest of the year, the Saiō lived in Saikū, a small town of up to 500 people approximately 10 kilometers north-west of Ise, in modern Meiwa, Mie Prefecture.Life at Saikū was, for the most part, peaceful.