{"id":466,"date":"2024-11-12T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=466"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:05:51","slug":"15-november-2012-shichi-go-san-%e4%b8%83%e4%ba%94%e4%b8%89-seven-five-three-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/11\/12\/15-november-2012-shichi-go-san-%e4%b8%83%e4%ba%94%e4%b8%89-seven-five-three-day\/","title":{"rendered":"15 November, 2024: Shichi-Go-San (\u4e03\u4e94\u4e09) \u201cSeven-Five-Three Day\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shichigosan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-467\" title=\"shichigosan\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shichigosan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Shichi-Go-San<\/em>\u00a0is a Japanese festival held on 15 November to celebrate the growth and well-being of young children. As it is not a national holiday, it is generally observed on the nearest weekend.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p><em>Shichi-Go-San<\/em>\u00a0is said to have originated in the\u00a0<a title=\"Heian Period\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heian_Period\">Heian Period<\/a>\u00a0amongst court nobles who would celebrate the passage of their children into middle childhood. The ages 3, 5 and 7 are consistent with East Asian\u00a0<a title=\"Numerology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numerology\">numerology<\/a>, which claims that odd numbers are lucky. \u00a0The practice was set to the fifteenth of the month during the\u00a0<a title=\"Kamakura Period\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamakura_Period\">Kamakura Period<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, this tradition passed to the\u00a0<a title=\"Samurai\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samurai\">samurai<\/a>\u00a0class who added a number of rituals. Children\u2014who up until the age of three were required by custom to have shaven heads\u2014were allowed to grow out their hair. Boys of age five could wear\u00a0<a title=\"Hakama\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hakama\">hakama<\/a>\u00a0for the first time, while girls of age seven replaced the simple cords they used to tie their\u00a0<a title=\"Kimono\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimono\">kimono<\/a>\u00a0with the traditional\u00a0<a title=\"Obi (sash)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obi_(sash)\">obi<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>By the\u00a0<a title=\"Meiji Period\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meiji_Period\">Meiji Period<\/a>, the practice was adopted amongst commoners as well, and included the modern ritual of visiting a\u00a0<a title=\"Jinja (Shinto)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jinja_(Shinto)\">shrine<\/a>\u00a0to drive out\u00a0<a title=\"Evil\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evil\">evil<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Spirit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirit\">spirits<\/a>\u00a0and wish for a long healthy life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shichi-Go-San\u00a0is a Japanese festival held on 15 November to celebrate the growth and well-being of young children. As it is not a national holiday, it is generally observed on the nearest weekend. History Shichi-Go-San\u00a0is said to have originated in the\u00a0Heian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/11\/12\/15-november-2012-shichi-go-san-%e4%b8%83%e4%ba%94%e4%b8%89-seven-five-three-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}