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March 3rd\u00a0marks the traditional Japanese holiday,\u00a0Hina-matsuri<\/i>\u00a0(\u3072\u306a\u796d\u308a), also known as Doll Festival, Peach Festival, or Girl\u2019s Day. It\u2019s a time when young girls and their families celebrate and pray for the happiness and health of the girls by displaying a set of ornamental dolls (\u3072\u306a\u4eba\u5f62, hina-ningy\u014d)<\/i>\u00a0in beautiful kimono on a stair-like platform called \u201china-dan (<\/i>\u3072\u306a\u58c7)<\/i>\u201d. March 3rd\u00a0marks the traditional Japanese holiday,\u00a0Hina-matsuri\u00a0(\u3072\u306a\u796d\u308a), also known as Doll Festival, Peach Festival, or Girl\u2019s Day. It\u2019s a time when young girls and their families celebrate and pray for the happiness and health of the girls by displaying a set of ornamental dolls (\u3072\u306a\u4eba\u5f62, hina-ningy\u014d)\u00a0in beautiful kimono on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"ja","enabled_languages":["en","ja"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ja":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahojapaneseassociation.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe origin of this festival dates back to the Heian era (\u5e73\u5b89\u6642\u4ee3) which is about 1,000 years ago. At the time, it was a purification ceremony for good health, and people made paper dolls and transferred their misfortunes to them and threw them in rivers. Later in the Edo era, the ceremony became a festive event.
\n\u00a0<\/span>There are different types of sets, and one of the most gorgeous ones is a seven-tier set (\u4e03\u6bb5\u98fe\u308a,\u00a0shichi-dan-kazari<\/i>), which has not just the main emperor doll (\u7537\u3073\u306a, obina<\/i>) and empress doll (\u5973\u3073\u306a, mebina<\/i>), but also some other figures like ministers (\u5927\u81e3, daijin), three court ladies (\u4e09\u4eba\u5b98\u5973, sannin-kanjo), and five male musicians\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>(\u4e94\u4eba\u56c3\u5b50, gonin-bayashi) with some offerings including\u00a0peach blossoms, carts, chests, and paper lanterns. Most of these traditional dolls are hand crafted, and the prices vary depending on the number of dolls, the quality of materials, how excellent the workmanship is, or who make them. Some sets that are made by famous doll artists could be as expensive as a brand-new car. They are often passed on from generation to generation.
\n\u00a0<\/span>Traditionally during this holiday, we eat scattered sushi (\u3061\u3089\u3057\u5bff\u53f8,\u00a0chirashi-zushi<\/i>),\u00a0hina-arare<\/i>\u00a0(\u3072\u306a\u3042\u3089\u308c, bite-sized sweet rice crackers which colors are red\/pink, green, yellow and white), and\u00a0hishi-mochi<\/i>\u00a0(\u3072\u3057\u9905, colored-layered rice cakes that are, from the top, red\/pink, white and green), but you could really eat anything that you want that is special to you.
\nHere\u2019s to happiness and good health for all girls!
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