"Go-betweens assist in the eating ceremony at the wedding of Iwasa Yukuji and Kimoto, his bride, in their new house. Behind the bride is the chest of drawers brought as part of her trousseau." Photo taken in the early 1950s.

From: Beardsley, Richard K., Hall, John W., and Ward, Robert E. Village Japan. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1959.