Ethnology, Volume 38University of Pittsburgh, 1999 - Anthropology |
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... CEREMONY The coming - of - age ceremony is celebrated publicly in each city and town in Japan on January 15 , and symbolizes the attainment of legal majority of men and women who will become twenty in the course of that year . The theme ...
... CEREMONY The coming - of - age ceremony is celebrated publicly in each city and town in Japan on January 15 , and symbolizes the attainment of legal majority of men and women who will become twenty in the course of that year . The theme ...
Page 357
... ceremony is considered in modern Japan as one of the life cycle rituals ( kankon sōsai ) that the Japanese are keen to perform properly . However , despite the importance given to formality , contemporary Japanese consider themselves ...
... ceremony is considered in modern Japan as one of the life cycle rituals ( kankon sōsai ) that the Japanese are keen to perform properly . However , despite the importance given to formality , contemporary Japanese consider themselves ...
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... ceremony . In fact , most girls , when asked their motivation for donning a constraining kimono and participating in the ceremony answered , “ Because my mother wanted me to " or " I couldn't resist my mother's will . " Japanese mothers ...
... ceremony . In fact , most girls , when asked their motivation for donning a constraining kimono and participating in the ceremony answered , “ Because my mother wanted me to " or " I couldn't resist my mother's will . " Japanese mothers ...
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