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Saturday November 11, 11:37 AMCeremony held for Princess Aiko for good health, well-being(Kyodo) _ A traditional ceremony to give thanks for Princess Aiko's growth and to wish her good health was held Saturday, with the 4-year-old daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako dressed in traditional attire.After the "Chakko-no-Gi" ceremony at the Togu Palace in Tokyo's Minato Ward in the morning, Princess Aiko visited Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, wearing a "mo," a kind of long skirt her grandfather gave her at the time of her birth. Chakko-no-Gi is a ceremony passed down in the imperial family from Japan's Heian period (794-1185) to celebrate the passage from infancy to childhood, according to the Imperial Household Agency. In the imperial ceremony, which is similar to Japan's traditional festival of "Shichi-Go-San," princes wear "hakama," a kind of trousers, and princesses wear mo, the agency said. In Shichi-Go-San -- meaning literally seven, five and three -- kimono-clad girls aged three and seven and boys in hakama aged three and five receive blessings from their local shrines. |
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