 Harumichi presents various proposals for the new Meiji government including the creation of a university or daigakkō in the palace in Kyoto. In terms of rites, he asserts the primary importance of restoring the Daijōsai, the inaugural Great New Food Festival ceremony to offer the first crops of rice to the ancestral gods in the eleventh month following the new emperor’s ascension to the throne. For his textual authorities, Harumichi cites his readings of the classical works of Japan beginning with The Record of Ancient Matters (Kojiki), The Chronicles of Japan (Nihon shoki and Jingishiki), and Kokugaku writings such as Motoori Norinaga’s Commentaries on the Record of Ancient Matters (Kojikiden) and Hirata Atsutane’s Lectures on Ancient History (Koshiden). He also cites Chinese classics beginning with the Analects, the Book of Filial Piety, and Six Classics, as well as writings of Western learning, astronomy, and geography.