During Japans Heian period the coming of age ceremony was reserved for the sons of higher castes such as nobles and samurai. However, as time went on, the ceremony spread to lower ranking citizens. Following the gempukku ceremony, the boys, now men, were expected to perform adult work. For those of the samurai-class, new adults were considered full warriors and expected to wage battle if needed. It was also after the gempukku ceremony that youths gained the legal right to get married and to perform services at shinto ceremonies. From the Edo Period onward, the ceremony for women dropped the name of moji and also came to be known as genpuku. By now, girls acceded to adulthood when they were aged eighteen to twenty, and in some cases at the
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