Taking mom to your gokon may not be ideal...

[Taro Toporific]

Taking your mom to your gokon/matchmaking party may not be ideal, but you have to do something when the gokon has 23 guys and only 17 girls.

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Young Buddhist priests seek marriage partners at matchmaking parties
6 January 2014 | Kyodo
Finding marriage partners is a problem shared by many young Buddhist priests, who are short of opportunities to meet people of their own generation.
An event was held at a restaurant in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, in December to help them find marriage partners. It was attended by 23 priests and other men in their 20s to 40s and 17 women...more...

[IparryU]

Taking your mom to your gokon/matchmaking party may not be ideal, but you have to do something when the gokon has 23 guys and only 17 girls.

mom-to-match.jpg

Young Buddhist priests seek marriage partners at matchmaking parties
6 January 2014 | Kyodo
Finding marriage partners is a problem shared by many young Buddhist priests, who are short of opportunities to meet people of their own generation.
An event was held at a restaurant in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, in December to help them find marriage partners. It was attended by 23 priests and other men in their 20s to 40s and 17 women...more...

ok choko, you are so taking me to one of these... need to find a new wife!!!

[Taro Toporific]

I found a couple of 2011 articles about these gokon...

Japan's monks turn to wife matchmaking parties
Telegraph 26 Oct 2011
Japan's Buddhist monks are taking action in their mission to find successors to their temples – by attending matchmaking parties to find a wife.
Japan's monks turn to wife matchmaking parties to secure future of family temples...
...A number of matchmaking events involving Buddhist monks, who are permitted to marry and have families in Japan, have taken place in the capital.
The daughters of temple owners without clear male successors have also been drawn to these events in order to meet potential monk husbands.
Ageing populations and shrinking birthrates combined with the often solitary life of a monk have resulted in growing concerns surrounding the hereditary succession of temples...
..."This is for the second or third male children of temple owners, monks from lay families and temple daughters who need to meet monks to take care of the temple for future generations. Followers who want to marry with monks can also attend." Their most recent event took place on the 30th floor of a skyscraper in the Odaiba area of Tokyo and involved rows of shaven-haired monks in suits sitting at tables and being formally introduced to suitable young women...more...

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Monks place their faith in matchmaking to find wives
October 25, 2011 -- AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
..."It is very hard to find a young woman who wants to marry a monk unless we take very proactive approaches in meeting such women," said a 27-year-old monk from Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture.
Twenty-two men and 29 women, some in one-piece dresses, participated in the event.
"My father is a temple master and I have three elder sisters," said a 24-year-old woman from Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, a teacher. "I want to find someone who will take over my family's temple."
A 37-year-old woman who has no family members or relatives with ties to a temple said, "If you marry a monk who owns a temple, as opposed to marrying a businessman, you do not need to worry about your husband being laid off as a result of his company's restructuring."...
...The Shingonshu Chisan-Ha sect also started offering arranged marriage advisory services last year, prompted by the difficulty in finding successors for temples.
According to a survey it conducted in fiscal 2010, 41.9 percent of the temples in Japan have not decided on a heir to take over operations....more...

[matsuki]

Uh oh, my secret is out! haha

IPU, she said there are these tera-kon all the time in Niigata

[IparryU]

Uh oh, my secret is out! haha

IPU, she said there are these tera-kon all the time in Niigata

well... i may have to barge in your new place and attend! fuck the cold though...

[matsuki]

It's like chirstmasland all winter there...fucking cold.

[Yokohammer]

It's like chirstmasland all winter there...fucking cold.

You're in Niigata, right?

Yup, that's some serious cold.
You now have the distinction of living in an even even colder place than I do.

Shouldn't be too hard to find an ice hockey team though.

[wagyl]

If the snow depth is still zero you really aren't trying.

[matsuki]

It's like chirstmasland all winter there...fucking cold.

You're in Niigata, right?

Yup, that's some serious cold.
You now have the distinction of living in an even even colder place than I do.

Shouldn't be too hard to find an ice hockey team though.

Back at work in relatively warm Tokyo now but yeah, Niigata...how ironic that I get married and move to the land of エッチ後

If the snow depth is still zero you really aren't trying.

Yeah, not so bad compared to you...but remember I'm driving back and forth quite a bit....since it officially became winter, I've yet to make the drive without being blasted by snow (or tanking through it) when it comes to the mountainous areas.

[IparryU]

It's like chirstmasland all winter there...fucking cold.

You're in Niigata, right?

Yup, that's some serious cold.
You now have the distinction of living in an even even colder place than I do.

Shouldn't be too hard to find an ice hockey team though.

Back at work in relatively warm Tokyo now but yeah, Niigata...how ironic that I get married and move to the land of エッチ後

I believe we have been living in the wrong place my man...

Coligny we needs to borrow some electronics and hard drives.


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