Cupid has been very busy during the spring. With the celebration of the Imperial silver wedding, however, Hymen has become extremely busy too. All the marriageable young people of Tokyo have been selecting the silver wed~ ding period of rejoicing in which to solemnize their own nuptials, despite parental admonitions and entreaties.
The Hibiya Daijingu is the main Shinto wedding shrine in Tokyo and, ever since May 10, an average of 30 to 40 couples have been married here daily, the officiating priests being kept busy from 9 in the morning till often 9 at night. All day long the quaint strains of Shinto. music, not unlike the muffied gurgles of a bagpipe, have been heard in its neighbourhood, proof that yet another man and maid were entering upon a very important period of their lives. y that during this week they will have to solemnize an average number of 30 weddings day. It might be tiring for the priests, but this also means that the coffers of this particular Shrine will be enormously enriched by the time Tokyo begins to divest herself of the festive garb she donned for the Imperial silver wedding cele-rations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.