I had to stop in the middle of the tale to make this post.
Dartz! Dude! That thing with the children - that was the Shichi-Go-San holiday!
It's a huge rite of passage for Japanese children where five-year-old boys and three- and seven-year old girls go to the shrines to drive out evil and make wishes for a healthy life.
This, of course, was a thing because child mortality was very high when the tradition started. It was said that all children were "Children of the Gods" up until the age of seven.
Photography is common for this holiday. If you had promised prints and/or negatives, I'm sure that many of the parents would have been ecstatic about the idea of photos taken with a film-camera. Though I could only imagine how confused the children would be when you can't send them the picture right away.
Dartz! Dude! That thing with the children - that was the Shichi-Go-San holiday!
It's a huge rite of passage for Japanese children where five-year-old boys and three- and seven-year old girls go to the shrines to drive out evil and make wishes for a healthy life.
This, of course, was a thing because child mortality was very high when the tradition started. It was said that all children were "Children of the Gods" up until the age of seven.
Photography is common for this holiday. If you had promised prints and/or negatives, I'm sure that many of the parents would have been ecstatic about the idea of photos taken with a film-camera. Though I could only imagine how confused the children would be when you can't send them the picture right away.