We held the Aki (Autumn) Matsuri and 753 (Shichi-Go-San) ceremony.
At Aki Matsuri, we showed appreciation all harvest, success and improvement in 2018 as well as praying great harvest, success, improvement and world peace in 2019 to Kami / spirits. This is the traditional custom and culture which Japanese has been passing along from ancient.
At Shichi-Go-San, we provided blessing service to the family who attended. These family showed appreciation to Kami / spirits and prayed their children’s health, happiness and success. We supported their prayers to Kami / spirits.
Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) is…
In Japan, Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) is celebrated every November 15th. This ceremony is performed to honor children and dates back to the 17th century. The ceremony is held for all children who are three, boys who are five, and girls who are seven. The ceremony is a very big day in their lives (ages are in Asian reckoning*). Children are dressed in their best traditional clothes which are age appropriate, and their parents take them to a shrine to be blessed by priests. The parents and children both offer their thanks to the deity in appreciation. For the parents, this marks a significant step in their child’s life, and one in which the parents are grateful for the child’s health and well-being.
