Talk:Shinto wedding

Weddings in Shinto notability

Requested by participants at WikiProject Japan, Shinto is a major world religion and its wedding ceremonies are unique. There is substantial literature about Shinto weddings, which are quite different in history and practice from Buddhist and secular weddings in Japan. For that reason I think Shinto weddings are notable and merit inclusion on Wikipedia. Owlsmcgee (talk) 04:31, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Link to JAwiki?

Weirdly, the JAwiki article for 神前結婚 is linked to the American/Western "Marriage" page. As a result, the German "Shinto Wedding" page is also linked to the Japanese "Wedding" article rather than the Japanese "Shinto wedding" article. It seems like it would be better linked to a specifically Shinto concept of the wedding. Anyone know how to change that? Owlsmcgee (talk) 04:42, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Relation to Buddhist weddings

I've read in at least one source that almost all funerals in Japan are Buddhist, as opposed to Shinto, due to the overall influence (in fact, termed a "monopoly") of Buddhism on Japanese culture. I wonder if there is a similar situation here with weddings? It seems impossible that there was no Shinto wedding ceremony in Japan for almost 2,000 years.

However, the article Buddhist view of marriage claims that there is no wedding ceremony in Buddhism, shooting a hole in that theory. Anyone else have any thoughts? --8bitW (talk) 16:31, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi 8bitW, my sources (which are in the article) say that there was simply a domestic ceremony held at the house of the husband's family, rarely at shrines and rarely performed by Shinto priests, who were rarely trained to perform them. I'd love to hear (and incorporate) any documentation of those "rarely's", but I haven't come across any. Owlsmcgee (talk) 19:13, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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