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March 3rd is Dolls Day in Japan.  It’s the day that families with girls express their wish for their daughters’ health. Ayako wrote to me from Japan about the holiday… I am at my mom’s house today.  It’s Hinamatsuri day. My mom’s ohinasama [set of dolls] is pretty.  My grandmother got them for my sister and...
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Ayako Egawa wrote to me from Japan about the Doll Festival.  It’s called Hina Matsuri in Japanese… Hi Lisa, March 3rd is the Doll Festival that families with daughters express wishes for their daughters’ good health and growth by displaying hina dolls as you know.  Hina dolls are traditionally displayed on stepped shelves, but I found...
Dolls Festival is coming up on March 4th in Japan.  I found this description of an experience of the Festival from 1919.  What’s interesting is that it sounds like the Festival hasn’t changed much to this day… Tokyo, Tuesday, March 4. …Yesterday, to begin, was spent thus: It was the famous festival of dolls… (A family) invited...
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I’m going into my daughter’s class this week to talk about some Japanese Festivals.  It may be helpful to other people who are also covering this topic for me to outline what I’m covering with links to more material. 1) Hina Matsuri – Doll Festival – March 3rd – people pray for their daughters’ future...
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Hina Matsuri or “Doll Festival”, is celebrated in Japan on March 3rd every year. Ayako Egawa wrote to me from Japan about the holiday: “Families with daughters celebrate March 3 by displaying Hina-dolls on a stepped shelf to express the wish for their daughters’ good health and growth. I posted a photo of ‘Hina-dolls’ (below). They...
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Tomorrow, March 3rd, is the Hina Matsuri 雛祭り or Doll Festival in Japan. The Japanese celebration seems to have originated in China, where there was a festival called Shang-suu that had also been celebrated on March 3rd, at least since the 3rd century AD. Shang-suu may go back before that time but the...
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In Japan, on March 3rd, Hina Matsuri, people pray for their daughters’ future happiness, health and growth. Hina means doll and matsuri means festival, so Hina Matsuri is literally Doll Festival. It’s also Girls’ Day. Yet another name for the day is Momo no Sekku meaning Peach Blossom Festival, because this is around the...
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