Next month, Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival or Girls' Festival, will be held on March 3rd as usual. It is a festival when families celebrate their daughters by displaying Hina dolls depicting the Imperial couple in costumes from the Heian Era. The dolls are on show from about a month before up to the 3rd of March.
Read more about this festival and look at some photos here.
Instead of the dolls seen in the link, I have a mobile with hanging ornaments of stuffed dolls and crepe silk (chirimen) objects. This type of Hina decorations originate in Inatori, Yanagawa and Sakai cities.
By clicking on HINA in the tabs above, you can see and read more about my Hina doll mobile and the ornaments.
Every year, I make three new items. These are for 2025:
Top left: an open Physalis, top right: three rings, bottom: a flower.
There are now 97 ornaments. Next year, I will reach the 100-item mark!!!
These are great! Do you leave them up year round?
ReplyDeletePerfect additions to your mobile!
ReplyDeleteGirl's Festival is a great idea. Promoting and wishing girls good success is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWow, so many ornaments.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing mobile!
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