As weather is getting warmer and plum trees are about to blossom, the month of March is started with a colorful festival of Hinamatsuri (dolls’s festival). Hinamatsuri fell on the 3rd of March, a special day for the girls in the family.
Japanese families visit the temples to pray for the growth and happiness of their daughters. A set of hina dolls and arrangements of peach-blossoms and rape-blossoms are displayed. The most complete and expensive hina-doll set comprised of:
- the Emperor and Empress,
- three ladies in waiting,
- five musicians,
- two retainers and three guards,
- two bonbori lanterns,
- a miniature cherry blossom tree and an orange tree, and
- special hinamatsuri goodies, like colourful hishimochi (diamond-shaped rice cakes), etc.
As most of other festivals in Japan, hina festival is originally carried out to protect people from evil. A thousand years ago, Japanese would made their own version of doll, wrote their name on it and floated it down a stream, hoped that evil fortune would float away with it.
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where’s ur pic wearing kimono?? ki ki ki
it’s coming soon…soon…^ ^