"Mother and daughter dressed for Shichi-go-san, a November 15 festival. Seven- and three-year-old girls dress in their best kimonos and five-year-old boys dress up as well (today in suits)."

From: O'Donnell, Joe. Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005; 37.