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World Folk Doll Museum
About 1,000 traditional dolls, some from the Meiji Era (1868-1912), are placed on a 30-tier stand at the World Folk Doll Museum in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture. The dolls have been set up for the annual March 3 Girls' Festival and will be on public display through April 10. See also the Yokohama Doll Museum.
Girls' Day Dolls - Hina-Ningyo ひな人形
Ningyo are the sets of dolls collected by Japanese children and kept for display on Boys' Day (May 5) or Girls' Day (March 3). The boys' day displays include gods, warriors, armour, a white horse and other valiant animals, while the girls' day ningyo include a hieratic male and female "emperor and empress" (the dairi-bina) attended by wise warriors, musicians, ladies serving sake, etc.
Parents or grand parents of a newborn girl will buy a set of gorgeous hina dolls, unless they have special dolls which have been inherited from generation to generation.
Hina-matsuri is also called momo-no-sekku 桃の節句, which means a festival of peach blossoms. 日本の手紙
posted by Message from Japan on Saturday, March 10, 2007
