MARRIAGE IN JAPAN
ODD FEATURES OF THE COURT
ING AND CEREMONY.
Every Girl Is Supposed to Marry and
Match-Making Is a Regular
Business—There Is No
Honeymoon.
Every girl in Japan is expected to
marry, so when she attains to the age
of 1(1 or thereabouts a suitable husband
is sought for her by her parents or a
friend of the family.
The friend is often a professional
matchmaker, who makes it his business
to introduce young people to one an
other. This third person is called the
“go-between,” or “Nakadachi.” If all
is agreeable the day is fixed.
The wedding ceremony, such as it is,
takes place in the evening, and the
bride leaves her parents’ house in the
afternoon, to repair to the bridegroom's
for the ceremony. Sometimes the bride
groom comes to the house for the bride,
in the case of his adoption as a son,
or if the bride is the only child of her
parents.
She is preceded by more or less fur
niture, and boxes of clothes, carried
on poles by coolies, wearing a special
uniform. She generally takes a writing
table and materials, which consist of
rolls of porous paper for letters, pack
ets of long thin envelopes, and a rub
bing stone and Indian ink enclosed in
a square lacquer box.
In her luggage is also a chest of
drawers, called a “tansu,” and lacquer
tables for meals, with complete dishes
and cups and chopsticks, and a large
stock of dresses and sashes. As the
fashion does not change in Japan, a
bride can take to her husband’s house
enough clothes to serve a lifetime. Ev
ery woman, except perhaps in court
circles, knows how to sew and makes
not only her own clothes, but those of
her children and husband as well.
Girls are taught how to sew when
quite young, and most of the time out
of school is spent in making or re
making a "kimona,” which is the
name given lo the long, loose outer
robe worn in the country. A workbox
is always seen when sewing is in prog
ress, and it has small drawer- in it for
thread and scissors, and a long foot
measure fitted in at the back.
But to return to the wedding cere
mony. This itself is strictly private,
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A JAPANESE WEDDING CAICE.
r.o one being present except the bride
and her parents, the bridegroom and
his parents, the go-between—“Na-ka
dachi”—and a servant whose business
it is to pass the “cup.” “Sakazuke”
then takes place, which is the drink
ing of “sake.” (the native spirit) from
a twin-spouted cup. There are three
cups, one arranged above the other
and the bride and bridegroom drink
alternately.
Then this is repeated between bride
and bridegroom, and parents and go
between respectively nine times. For
tunately for the happy pair the cup is
small. The go-between then proceeds
to sing a song, specially composed for
the occasion. (The Japanese are very
original and easily compose songs and
orations.) When this is over the
many invited guests, who in the mean
while have been quietly sitting in the
adjoining room, are invited to enter
and great merriment prevails till late
in the night. Wedding cakes are eaten
at this gathering, made of rice flour
and sugar, stamped in the shape of a
stork and tortoise, emblematic of long
life and felicity. Accompanying these
cakes are sugar flowers, beautifully
made ar.d delicately colored to imitate
nearly every flower of which Japan is
proud. You often see most perfect
representations of the peony, narcissus,
maple leaf, azalea, chrysanthemum,
camelia, and even fir cones. These
cakes are done up in thin wooden
boxes and sent round to all relatives
and fpiends, in much the same way as
the custom prevails in England.
There is r.o "going away” for bride
and bridegroom nice the American
honeymoon tour, but the bride receives
callers and settles dn\|li in her new
home. Here her time is occupied with
work in the house, and attentions to
her husband’s comfort. Various duties
fall to her lot; she entertains friends,
receives and returns presents (which is
a much observed custom in Japan),
superintends her servants in the pol
ishing of the veranda boards, and gives
directions for the provisioning of the
house. This is a most important duty
for the housewife in Japan, for there
are rigid rules of hospitality, and
friends often call unexpectedly, and if
they have traveled far, stay a whole
day, if not longer, and the lady of the
house must always have things in
readiness.
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Late in the evening of the same day it
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