Weddings in ancient Japan were mainly divided into three types: weddings in front of gods, weddings in front of Buddha, and weddings in front of people.

These three types of weddings can be roughly inferred from their names just by looking at their names.

As the name suggests, a shrine-style wedding is a wedding held in a shrine. It is the most complicated of the three types of weddings.

The Buddha-style wedding is a wedding held in a Buddhist hall. It is the least popular wedding among the three types of weddings.

Whether it is a wedding before gods or a wedding before Buddha, the links are quite complicated.

Take the most complicated wedding before God as an example. If you want to hold a wedding before God, it may take half a day just to go through the complicated procedures.

The first is to participate in the ceremony.

With the accompaniment of Gagaku, the priest who presided over the ceremony and the shrine maiden guided the bride and others into the main hall of the shrine.

Under the guidance of the shrine maiden and the dowry, after entering the interior of the temple, the groom's relatives sit on the right side facing the god, while the bride herself sits on the left side facing the god. Relatives are arranged according to the closeness of their blood relationship.

Take your seats in order starting from the place closest to the deity being worshiped.

Next comes the purification ceremony. "Xiuzhen" means a cleansing ceremony to cleanse the body and mind. The groom, bride and all participants will be blessed by the host to purify the body and mind.

Then comes the adhan of the host, which starts the ceremony. All participants must follow the host and bow to the gods. Then the host begins the "congratulatory speech" ceremony and reports to the gods that the bridegroom and the bride are about to get married.

About getting married.

It is not until this time that the wedding officially begins. The bride and groom then have to perform three rituals, recite oaths, perform blessing dances by witches, and enshrine jade strings, etc. A series of complex activities.

When it comes to the complexity of weddings, weddings in front of Buddha are not far behind compared to weddings in front of gods.

Because there are many aspects of weddings before gods and weddings before Buddha, and the formations are quite large, only people with a little extra money in their families have the ability to hold weddings in shrines or Buddhist halls.

Therefore, the vast majority of civilians and some warriors hold weddings in front of people with simpler procedures and almost no cost.

In-person weddings are basically held at the groom's home.

The groom takes the bride to his home, then holds a three-part ceremony and reads the oaths in the presence of relatives and friends. After the oaths are recited, the wedding can be declared over.

If you find it too troublesome, you can even omit the three presentation ceremonies. After taking the bride to your home, you can read the oath in the presence of relatives and friends, and then declare the wedding to be over.

Because weddings in front of people are almost cost-free, most weddings held by common people are weddings in front of people.

No matter how poor you are, you can always have the ability to bring the bride into your home and invite all your relatives and friends, right?

Because there are so few links, it usually only takes 10-15 minutes to hold a wedding in front of people.

The wedding held by Ogata and Omachi today was a public wedding.

When getting married in Japan, good times and auspicious days are also important.

Although Ogata didn't pay much attention to this, after much consideration, he decided to follow the local customs and make the wedding as ceremonial as possible.

After deciding to hold the wedding in Edo before officially leaving for Ezochi, Ogata and Amachi began to look for a suitable date to get married.

Finally, they chose today, November 11th.

Because the wedding was held in the afternoon, after they got up this morning, they decided to take a walk outside while there was still time in the morning.

So, the two of them went to Ryogokuguro Trail this morning and listened to stories together.

The place where the two held their wedding was naturally the house they borrowed from Dongcheng House.

It was held in the most spacious room in the house.

At this moment, the relatives and friends invited by Ogata, Atachi and others have gathered.

Of course, Uncle Qing, the only relative of Atachi at present, and the Calabash House group headed by Lin and Genichi were also present.

In addition to Uncle Qing and the Calabash House group, Ogata also invited Kondo and Gua Sheng over.

Uncle Qing, the Calabash House group, Kondo, and Guao, a total of 9 people. These are all the guests attending the wedding of Ogata and Omachi.

They were all dressed in formal attire and sat on both sides of the room, quietly waiting for today's two protagonists to arrive.

Ogata has never directly told the group of people at Calabash House about his relationship with Atachi before.

But whether Ogata said it or not, it actually didn't matter.

Lin and the others are not stupid, they have long seen that the relationship between Ogata and Atachi is not ordinary.

Therefore, the fact that "Ogata and Atachi have a close relationship" has always been tacitly understood in the hearts of Gouraya and others.

Therefore, when Ogata and Omachi announced to the Gourdiya group a few days ago that they were planning to hold a wedding before leaving Edo, Rin and the others were not surprised at all.

Lin is quite generous.

After Ogata announced that he was going to hold a wedding with A-Machi, he directly allocated a sum of money to Mamiya and others and asked them to buy dresses immediately.

A few days ago, after receiving Ogata's invitation, Kondo and Gua Sheng said without hesitation that they must go.

Although Kondo is a bit honest and honest, he is also a rough and tumble person. He could not do such a thing by attending other people's weddings in a sloppy manner, and it was his own master's wedding.

Therefore, Kondo went around asking friends who lived in Edo in the past few days and successfully borrowed a set of formal clothes.

Guasheng has lived in Edo for so many years and has attended countless weddings of her friends, so she naturally has formal attire for formal occasions.

Although Lin, Makimura, and Asai's injuries are still far away from recovery, they can still put on formal clothes and sit down to attend the wedding.

Not long after everyone took their seats, the two protagonists finally arrived.

The first person to enter the room was Ogata.

The upper body is covered with a black haori with long sleeves and a long hem. The back of the haori is embroidered with platycodon patterns in 5 places. The base coat under the haori is also black. The lower body is wearing a black and white striped hakama, and the belt is tied in a cross knot.

, wearing white socks on his feet, this is Ogata's current attire.

Ogata's current outfit is a very standard "Haori hakama".

The so-called "monosuke haori hakama" was the highest-level male dress in the Edo period and was generally worn only on special and important occasions such as weddings.

Originally, the family crest could only be used by nobles and nobles. During the Warring States Period, the family crest began to be widely used by the martial arts disciples.

Now in the Edo period, even many common people have family crests.

Although Ogata came from a poor samurai family in the Hirose Domain, he was still a descendant of the samurai family, so Ogata naturally had a family crest.

The platycodon pattern is the family crest of the Ogata family.

As for why his family's family crest is the platycodon pattern, Ogata is not sure.

Perhaps just because his ancestors thought the platycodon pattern was very handsome, they chose the platycodon pattern as the family crest of the Ogata family.

Many families choose family crests so casually.

After family crests became popular, except for the chrysanthemum pattern representing the royal family and the sunflower pattern representing the shogun, which cannot be used indiscriminately, other family crests tend to be abused.

Many samurai and civilian families consider which family crest is more handsome, so they choose this family crest as their own family crest.

After deciding to hold a wedding with Ogata, Ogata immediately found a clothing store that could customize clothes and asked the store to help prepare a set of haori hakama embroidered with his Ogata family crest.

Ogata made the custom order on the same day and received the clothes the next day.

Because haori hakama with a pattern on it is very easy to prepare in advance a large number of haori hakama without a family pattern. If the customer requests any family pattern to be embroidered, just embroider it immediately.

If you're quick, you might be able to prepare a haori hakama that meets the customer's requirements in just 1 or 2 hours.

The clothing store Ogata ordered clothes from was very conscientious.

When Ogata came to pick up his clothes, he also gave Ogata a small gift, a fan with the Ogata family's platycodon pattern engraved on the handle.

In Ogata's impression, this seemed to be the first time he wore clothing embroidered with his family's crest.

The person who followed Ogata into the room was naturally Atachi.

Atachi lowered his head slightly, folded his hands in front of him, followed Ogata, and walked slowly into the room.

Her hair is combed into a Bunkin Takashimada bun. The kimono, robe, robe, belt, and stockings are all as white as snow. The sword on the chest, lace, Suehiro and other accessories are also all white, and she wears it on her head.

The famous "Kakugakure" headdress is what A-machi is wearing now.

The outfit A-Machi is wearing is naturally the white wedding dress that girls wear when they get married.

There are generally two types of headdresses for Bai Wujin: white cotton hats and horned hats.

A "white cotton hat" is a large oval hat. Wearing a "white cotton hat" means not letting anyone except the groom see the bride's face before the wedding is over. It also means not bringing the bride's hair to the groom's family.

The "spiritual power" hidden in it means to eliminate disasters.

As for "Jiaoyin", it is to surround the bride's bun with a circle of white silk and then wear a coral hairpin or silver hairpin for decoration. It means "tighten the edges and corners, be gentle and obedient", and contains a virtuous and kind attitude towards the bride.

The hope of virtue.

When he was shopping for Shiro Muzan, Omachi thought the "white cotton hat" was too ugly and looked like a helmet when he put it on, so he chose the "Kakugakure" as his headgear for Shiro Muzan.

The two people who finally arrived walked to the northernmost end of the room at a leisurely pace, and then sat down side by side.

Sitting on Ogata's right hand side are Genichi, Makimura, Kondo, and Guao.

On the left hand side of Omachi, sitting down in order are Qingshu, Lin, Makimura, Asai, and Shimada.

Generally speaking, those closest to the bride and groom are the parents of the bride and groom.

The parents of Ogata and A-Machi are no longer alive. Although Uncle Qing and A-Machi are not related by blood, they are as close as uncle and nephew. A-Machi has always regarded Uncle Qing as half of his father, so Uncle Qing

Sitting closest to Amachi, there was no problem at all.
To be continued...