It is said that the shape of this daisu was modeled after a gate which only successful examinees from one of the historical civil service examination that took place in China could pass through, or a stand used to place the examinee's composition. |
科挙の進士及第の者のみが通れる門を象ったとも、進士及第の作文を置くための台に由来するともいわれる。 |