Day 1- Meiji-Jingu Shrine -4/1/2017
Wedding
This just the beginning when the bride and room are entering the courtyard.
All dressed in traditional clothes.
The bride in a white kimono and the groom in his formal black robe, walking together under a big red parasol, with Shinto priests leading the way and the rest of the wedding party trailing behind.
They paused for pictures.
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Shinto priests leading the way..
The groom and bride.
Check out his shoes! |
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The parents? |
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The ceremony is private so we had to stand outside to see a glimpse of all the priests doing a wedding rituals.
A kiosh selling good luck charms. She did not let us take a picture...
Mai and Thierry bought a few charms there... lots of people buying!
Ema are small
wooden wishing plaques on which worshippers write their prayers or wishes. The
ema are then left hanging up at the shrine, where the
kami (spirits or
gods) are believed to receive them. They bear various pictures, often of
animals or other Shinto imagery, and many have the word
"gan'i", meaning
"wish", written along the side. In ancient times people would donate horses to
the shrines for good favor and over time this was transferred to a wooden
plaque with a picture of a horse.
Workshippers wearing beautiful traditional clothes. |
We are the leaving the park and as I look back I took a picture of people going and leaving the shrine. |
We finished out tour and now we are leaving the park....
Next..Takeshita street/Shibuya