The first impression was wedding when I was thinking about this topic, "Japanese Religion" because there are some types of wedding in Japan although most of Japanese belong to Japanese religion, such as Shinto or Buddhism, and I wanted to check what types of wedding is the most popular and how many types of wedding there are in Japan and how each wedding takes place. Therefore, in this time, I tried to focus on this topic.
There are mainly three types of wedding in Japan, "Christian wedding", "Shinto wedding", and "Buddhist wedding". Recently, Chiristian wedding is the most popular among Japanese because the rests of two types of wedding are very quiet and they have the image that Japanese traditional wedding is sober in terms of dress and the place where takes place.
Next, I explain two types of wedding, Christian wedding and Shinto wedding.
At first about Chiristian wedding, less than 1% of Japan's population is Christian, but young Japanese couples prefer to this wedding. The reason why Japanese prefer this one is that friends can be present at the wedding, unlike in the Shinto wedding. In general, progress of this wedding in Japan, a priest (or the person who wears the costume of priest; it means not real priest) preside at wedding. Mainly, first a groom enters and waits for a bride in front of priest. Next, the bride who wears wedding dress comes with her father and he gives her over to the groom. It means that the bride leaves her father and lives with the groom.
Next about Shinto wedding.
In general, only the groom, bride, their immdiate families, and go-between attend the religious part of a Shinto ceremony. After the priest prays to the deities, the groom makes marriage oath. Then, the groom and bride perform exchange of nupital cups (sansan-kudo, 三三九度). Next, they exchange rings with each other.
By these explanations, you can understand that Japanese do not care about what religion they belong to very much. Actually, there are a lot of people in Japan who do not know which religion they belong to as well as I. Therefore, I think Japanese should be interested in Japanese religion more.
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You say there are three types of weddings in Japan, but only discuss two. What about Buddhist weddings? Where did you get your information from? Cite sources/provide links. Did you take the photos? If not, where did they come from?
Your information is too general. How can you provide a more anthropological approach to you subject?
I am interested in your comments about Japanese Christian-style weddings.
There are many problems when big business meets religion.
My blog is collecting information to help change the situation in Japan.
Do you know that Japanese laws are being broken?
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