inb4 translation is that her dad? i heard this is not marisa,its marisa mother if its her husband to be you might as well marry faceless fatrapistman why dont you marry rinnosukeeeeee????? RAGEEEEEEEEEEE
This is Marisa and that is her father. It's customary for the father to bring the bride to the alter where her husband-to-be is waiting. It comes from the old tradition of fathers "giving away" their daughters.
That why I said inb4 translation I don't care though, I'm a yuri fanboy after all, rinnosuke is all right,but if another man come into. The picture,I said fuck it
aaabd said: I wonder how Western marriage rites got into Gensokyo, given how the Hakurei border was made in 1884 in canon...
Maybe the same way Western witchcraft got in?
If you want to overthink it, I like to put it this way: Gensokyo is the toybox of Yakumo Yukari. Normally only things that drift into legend in the vicinity of the Hakurei Border have a chance to fall into Gensokyo spontaneously, but when an item or a person outside of Japan catches Yukari's fancy, she will of course uproot the building it's in to make it hers. The result is a sprinkling of Western architecture over Gensokyo, for example the Prismriver Mansion.
Sooner or later Yukari loses interest in her toys, and the occupants of these buildings die off or otherwise move on, leaving their earthly possessions behind. Some houses find new tenants, like Marisa and Alice, and others are ransacked by fairies and youkai. In this way, bits and pieces of Western style work their way into Gensokyo's culture, like the lace on Yuyuko's kimono.
Also, Remilia is a vampire from France, and maybe she has some books about weddings?
Nah, it's not canon or anything, I was being glib. Her specific nationality shouldn't affect the main idea though.
Really though, Patchouli is a French word, Meiling is Chinese, and Sakuya references Jack the Ripper. A wedding held at the mansion could just as easily have been Chinese.
Well Kourin, it's the flower viewing season.the memories were always of you.It's deep into autumn now, let's go pick mushrooms.That was what I realized about myself.... I don't know when, butwhenever I look back at these past ten years,However,I started waiting for you to come to Kourindou (read: my place).
