Fukusa
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Fukusa are a type of Japanese textile used for gift-wrapping or for purifying equipment during a Japanese tea ceremony. Fukusa are square or almost square pieces of lined fabric ranging in size about
19th-century fukusa portraying Jō and Uba in a scene from the Noh play Takasago; embroidered silk and couched gold-wrapped thread on indigo-dyed shusa satin silk
Shinto wedding
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Shinto weddings, Shinzen kekkon, Shinzenkekkon, began in Japan during the early 20th century, popularized after the marriage of Crown Prince Yoshihito and his bride, Princess Kujo Sadako. The ceremony
Fukusa
…designs. The use of fukusa as a way of presenting gifts has mostly died out, lingering instead mainly in certain ritual exchanges of gifts during weddings in a few regions of Japan. Traditionally in Japan, gifts were placed in boxes or on a wooden or lacquered tray, over which a fukusa would be draped…
A Shinto wedding ceremony.
Japanese formal wedding kimono shiromuku
A bride at a Shinto wedding shows her wig and tsuno-kakushi headdress.
An illustration of the first contemporary Shinto wedding ceremony, the 1900 marriage of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Kujo Sadako.