“Seijin no Hi has been celebrated since at least A.D. 714. The day originated when a young prince donned fancy new court robes and sported an adult hairstyle to mark his passage into adulthood”(David Allen). For females the ceremony was once called Moji. Females were considered adults at thirteen due to the fact life expectancy was between twenty-eight and thirty-three. As part of the ritual, young women would have their teeth dyed black and their eyebrows shaved off before putting on a thick layer of makeup and painting on eyebrows. Coming of age day is an extremely important ceremony in Japanese culture. It is a tradition that can be tracked all the way back to 714 A.D. Since then the young adults have done different things the cement their
