November 15 is a day of SHICHI GO SAN (known as a festival for boys of three and five and girls of three and seven years of age).
Last Wednesday, a fantastic scene was witnessed.
There in above photo is an illustration of a boy and a girl in a banner of SHICHI GO SAN, and the boy and the girl in the banner came out to the real world, and made a pilgrimage to Okazaki Jinja shrine.
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SHICHI GO SAN
The customs and manners of SHICHI GO SAN before Meiji Era used to be different from place to place. For example, there were differences of ages of children, between boys and girls, and a day of a pilgrimage to shrine.
Although the customs and manners are getting uniformly, there still be some differences. In Kyoto, all the days of November is supposed to be a day of SHICHI GO SAN, not only November 15.
Back Number Paradise!!