The Tenmangu Shrine is dedicated to the scholar Sugawarano Michizane who is also known as the God of Study. I wanted to pick my sister up a good luck charm for her ACT test from the shrine. Little did I know that there was currently a wedding going on.
My visit also happened to be around Sports Day (a national holiday) which is also known as Health Day. Of the many times Japanese people go to the temple to pray, one of them is for health. A Japanese person will specifically go to the temple to pray for their children's health. I believe this is why I saw many young children on my visit.
Japanese children are just too cute! I love kimono fashions! Putting the two together was perfect!
Some children, like this young girl, were celebrating Sitigosan a little early. Sitigosan is a holiday held on Nov. 15, where girls who are 3 and 7, and boys who are 3 and 5 come to the shrine to pray for good health. Young girls wear vests over their kimono's like this young girl has.
You can see her vest a little easier than the other girl's.
One of the first things a person does when entering a shrine is purify their hands and mouths. They do this by pouring the water over their hands and rinsing their mouth.
The little cutie with his mom!
Another reason most Japanese people go to the shrines is for a baby's first visit.
I unfortunately don't know who's these kimonos are. But both mother's with their babies had kimonos wrapped around them and the child. These kimonos are too small for the mothers, in which case these robes could be the baby's future Sitigosan kimono.
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