One of my biggest posts from last year (by biggest post I mean the one that drew the most traffic to davidandkiko.com as determined by Google) was my January post on Japan’s Coming of Age Ceremony. It was very strange, but I found the picture I had posted their linked to many many websites.
In January (while I was in Canada), my town, Chunan-cho (now merged to become Mannou-Cho) held it’s last Coming of Age Ceremony.
The second Monday in January is Coming of Age Day where all 20 year olds gather together in a ceremony held by the local governments around Japan to mark their passage into adult hood.
What makes this ceremony faily exciting is the huge number of young people you see wearing very elaborate kimonos wandering around the streets of Japan (young people wearing kimonos is not a common sight!) during the first half of January.
Here is the photo from Chunan-cho, 2006.
