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HINAMATSURI (DOLL'S DAY or GIRL'S DAY)

Isnin, 9 September 2013 • 4:22 PG • 0 comments

It is celebrated each year on March 3.

Platforms covered with a red carpet are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形 hina-ningyō) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.

The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period.

Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. "doll floating"), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them. The Shimogamo Shrine (part of the Kamo Shrine complex in Kyoto) celebrates the Nagashibina by floating these dolls between the Takano and Kamo Rivers to pray for the safety of children.

People have stopped doing this now because of fishermen catching the dolls in their nets. They now send them out to sea, and when the spectators are gone they take the boats out of the water and bring them back to the temple and burn them.

The customary drink for the festival is shirozake, a sake made from fermented rice.

FOODS :

A colored hina-arare, bite-sized crackers flavored with sugar or soy sauce depending on the region hishimochi, a diamond-shaped colored rice cake

Chirashizushi (sushi rice flavored with sugar, vinegar, topped withraw fish and a variety of ingredients.

A salt-based soup called ushiojiru containing clams still in the shell. Clam shells in food are deemed the symbol of a united and peaceful couple, because a pair of clam shells fits perfectly, and no pair but the original pair can do so.

Families generally start to display the dolls in February and take them down immediately after the festival. Superstition says that leaving the dolls past March 4 will result in a late marriage for the daughter.

The Kantō region and Kansai region have placement orders of the dolls from left to right, but the order of dolls per level are the same term for the platform in Japanese is hina dan (雛壇).

The layer of covering is called dankake (段掛) or simply hi-mōsen (緋毛氈), a red carpet with rainbow stripes at the bottom.

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