Girls’ festival

Tomorrow on 3rd of MAR. is Girls’ festival “HINAMATSURI” in Japanese.
The family who have a daughter display dolls like this.

This is a traditional style of dolls.
On the top, The Emperor and the Empress are displayed.
On 2nd, three court ladies,
On 3rd, five musicians,
On 4th, two ministers,
On 5th, three servants,
On 6th to 7th, furniture and food are displayed.

We start to display these dolls in February, and store them away immediately after the festival.
Because we believe that leaving the dolls will be result in late marriage for daughter.

Nomally we eat
small rice cracker

diamond shaped rice cake

chirashi-zushi

drink clam soup

and sake.

These are typical Girls’ festival style in Japan.

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