When they got to a certain age (sixteen in the early modern period and younger in the Jodai, or the era around the Nara period), girls had a kichijitsu (days considered to be lucky) chosen and their hair trimmed at the ceremony of Binsogi (a ceremony to celebrate girls' coming of age by trimming their hair), which corresponds to the present-day coming of age ceremony. 一定の年齢になったところで吉日を選び(近世では十六歳、上代ではもっと早い)現代の成人式に当たる「鬢削ぎ」で髪の先をそろえる。 |