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A June Wedding in Japan: Jinya, a Sacred Raffle and Kabukicho

Their friend announced two sacred moments: the sharing of sake, and a raffle. From a garden ceremony at Jinya to a night…

The river once carried timber and sweet potatoes towards Edo; on this spring afternoon, it carried two newlyweds beneath a tunnel of…

They asked for four things: the cherry blossom, Mt Fuji, the shrine and the string. A Mt Fuji elopement built around a…

They gave us an open map and one sentence: "We put our full faith in you!" Their Niigata elopement was a first…

Fuji had been hiding all day, and these two had never had a professional photo shoot. By the end of the afternoon,…

Japan has a name for the long rain of early spring, and it comes from the yellow flowers that bloom under it.…

He booked the flights nine months out, for a week no forecast could promise yet. Tokyo's cherry trees kept their side of…

The film opens in silence. A cedar forest ceremony in falling snow. Then the music changes completely and the rest of the…

Japan first met them in a snowstorm, and the Florida Keys married them in the wind. This spring their honeymoon brought them…

Low cloud on the cedar ridges, a 150-year-old house built for exactly this weather, and the few people who mattered most, close…

His only vow was "thanks for showing up". He'd first met her father in a hot spring, so they married at one:…