With a white wedding kimono, instead of a veil the bride wears a tsuno kakushi. Tsuno means 'horns' and the purpose of wearing this headdress was to veil her horns of jealousy, ego and selfishness - attributes that should not be displayed at a wedding in front of the groom and his family. It symbolized her resolve to become a gentle, obedient wife. Also in those days, hair was thought to be unclean so people wore a headdress to hide it.
Until the end of the Edo period in 1867, brides wore awataboshi hood which was supposed to conceal the bride's face to everyone except the groom. Both the tsuno kakushi and the wataboshiare still used at traditional, non-Western style weddings in Japan.
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