To mark the entry to adult life, boys between the ages of about 11 and 17 (typically of about age 12) were taken to the shrines of their patron kami. There they were presented with their first adult clothes, and their mizura were changed to the adult style. They were also given new eboshi-na or Courtesy Name (字 Azana). In the period between earl...
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Coming of age ceremony generally celebrated on a boy
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http://www.samurai-archives.com/vocab.html
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