髪かみ置おき

noun

hair-growing ceremony at age three

Historical Japanese rite of passage in which a child's hair, previously shaved, was allowed to grow from around the third birthday. Now largely obsolete.

• 平へい安あん時じ代だいには、三さん歳さいの髪かみ置おきの儀ぎ式しきが行おこなわれた。

  In the Heian period, the hair-placing ceremony was performed at age three.

• 「髪かみ置おき」は、昔むかしの子こどもの成せい長ちょうを祝いわう行ぎょう事じの一ひとつです。

  Kamioki is one of the traditional celebrations of a child's growth.