Under a wooden shrine gate he kisses her forehead, a tunnel of torii behind and a stone lantern on either side. A proposal in Tokyo can happen at a shrine as easily as on a rooftop. The rope across the gate is a shimenawa, and its zigzag papers, shide, mark where everyday ground ends and sacred ground begins.
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