The Origin of Shichi-Go-San
(The Meiji Shrine, Tokyo)


@The Edo period of earier than before, people belonging to the ruling class have a custom, which cerebrate the growth of children in those age bracket.
@They renewed their clothes and change their hair style because their baby grew into a boy or a girl in the age of three, five, seven.
@As a death rate was high in the old days, people felt easy when their baby grew up in the age of three, five, seven.

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