Japanese Marriage And Wedding Traditions

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During the age of aristocracy, a bridegroom would nightly visit his bride at her home and only after the birth of a child or the loss of parents to the bridegroom or husband, the bride would be accepted as the wife in the man's home. Among common people, labor power was an essential factor to maintain a family. It was an accepted practice in the Tohoku area in northern Japan for a bridegroom to live with his bride's family to offer his labor for a certain length of time. More widely spread was the system for a bridegroom and bride to offer their time and labor to their own families. In such cases, the husband would visit his wife nightly to maintain the married life. Again, in Izu Islands, it was for a wife to work for the family of her husband who would, however, stay at her home. The practice remains today in the system of adoption by which a man becomes a member of another family by marriage. Under either of such system it was necessary ...

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marriage. A "Nakodo" (go-between) would make further certain of a proposed marriage by the ceremonial exchange of drinks with the bride side immediately upon acceptance of the proposal. "Yui-no", as still observed and later described more in detail, is the exchange of various items between two families concerned assuring the engagement to be followed through.6
The wedding ceremony also became more elaborate. A messenger would be sent to the bride's home where family members hold a farewell party before handing her over to the bridegroom side. At the wedding ceremony proper, in addition to the "San-San-Kudo" exchange of drinks between the bridegroom and bride, drinks were now ...

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