The origins of Bukkake

A japanese bride enjoing her ritual bukkake.

Advertising with symbols of bukkake: to better fit the western taste, sperm has been changed with cream.

Bukkake is an ancient Japanese tradition, its true origins are lost in the fog of history.
The first historically important documentations about this practice are dated to the first half of the thirteenth century, but the bukkake probably originated some centuries earlier.
According to one of the most credited theories, bukkake was an ancient ritual of fertility taking place after a wedding, in order to guarantee a long and prosperous descendancy to the couple.
The bride was covered of sperm by all the people invited to the wedding. This way, they testified the bride becoming an adult woman and no longer a child, with all the rights and the duties that came from this changement of status.
The amount of sperm symbolizes the long and prosper descendancy that the participants to the wedding wishes to the couple.
It's easy to notice the strict relationship between the Japanese tradition of the bukkake and the western tradition of the throwing of rice to the spouses: both represent an important moment of the celebration of the wedding and have the function to wish to the bridal pair joy and prosperity.

Over the centuries, traditional customs have changed and bukkake has been transferred from the public-social sphere to the private one, (where only the close relatives and the most beloved friends can acceed), and has been transformed in a ceremony of large pump and luxury, in which the aesthetic values became utterly important.
Japanese young people dedicate to the preparation of bukkake as much time as the choice of the wedding dresses: an insufficient bukkake would represent an enormous shame for the family of the couple.
Bukkake therefore has continued to follow these two different traditions that were gradually changing: on one side the "rural" bukkake, which main point is the quantitative aspect of the emission of sperm. On the other side the "artistical" bukkake where maximum attention is given to the harmony of the gestures and to the music that accompany this ritual.

As in many ancient Japanese traditions (the martial arts, for instance) bukkake has suffered the western influence: what once was a ritual loaded with symbolic means has now become a sport in which victory is what really counts.
Something less "charming" but easier to understand for our modern western sensibility.

Only some Japanese families of ancient tradition (and sometimes tied to the imperial family) keep alive the tradition of the bukkake, but for obvious reasons it's not possible to have some documentation of these luxurious events celebrated in the wonderful dwellings of japanese noblemen.

There are every day less historical companies where actors in disguise "play" a traditional-style bukkake.
These artistic manifestations, once most frequent, are now slowly disappearing because of the lack of schools able to prepare adequately the actors for the most difficult task of the perfect execution of the bukkake.
Because of the enormous demand for tickets and of the scarcity of available places, it's practically impossible to assist to one of these shows.
Having a place in the front row of a bukkake theatrical show is a symbol of enormous prestige, comparable to the western tradition of the New Year's Day Concert in Vienna.