The coming of age ceremony is known as seijin shiki which means ‘new adult ceremony’, held by the local public entities that invited local people who has come of age to celebrate young boys and girls transition from being child to an being adult . The age that comes of age in Japan is 20 years old officially. This ceremony is started in the Nara period that is Japan unique culture. The coming of age ceremony held on the second monday of January, even though most places hold the ceremony one day earlier on the sunday in Japan. In order to attend ceremony, the female new adults wear furisode, setting special hair style and makeup at the coming of age ceremony. The furisode is very expensive which is worth up to 1,000,000 yen (Ten thousand Australian dollars), as a result 2/3 female new adults will rent a furisode for coming of age day. On the other hand, the male new adults wear montsuki hoary hakama at the ceremony. Same as the female, many male new adults rent montsuki hoary hakama at the rental shop. Before attend the ceremony, the new adults will go to photo studio to take some photo with parents or alone and made album leave it for memory.
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