Japanese Doll Festival 1800 Dolls on 60 Shrine Steps - Hina Matsuri Tomisaki Shrine 雛祭り 勝浦市
Hina Matsuri is a Japanese doll festival where dolls are set out to pray for the health and success of girls. The dolls represent the Imperial Court of the Heian Period (794-1185). At Tomisaki Shrine in Katsuura in Chiba Prefecture, they put up an impressive display with 1800 dolls on its 60 steep steps.
Hina Matsuri is Match 3rd but the displays go up about a week before and can been in many places.
In a small Japanese town dolls outnumbered the residents for the last two weeks. Some 23,000 small,
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(SUPER = Katsuura, Japan)
(SUPER = March 3)
IN THIS SMALL JAPANESE TOWN, DOLLS OUTNUMBERED THE RESIDENTS FOR THE LAST MANY DAYS.
AN ESTIMATED 23-THOUSAND SMALL DOLLS WITH DELICATELY-PAINTED FACES WERE DISPLAYED IN THE TOWN OF KATSUURA, TWO HOURS OUTSIDE TOKYO.
THE ANNUAL HINA DOLL FESTIVAL, OR HINA MATSURI IN JAPANESE, HONORS WOMEN.
(SOT)
(SUPER = Mr. Kobayashi, Curator, Tomisaki Shrine)
The Hina Matsuri has always been a festival to celebrate and bring happiness to women.
THE DOLLS ARE SEEN AS A PURIFYING FORCE.
GENERATIONS AGO FAMILIES WOULD BUY STRAW VERSIONS FOR YOUNG GIRLS, WHO WOULD FLOAT THEM DOWN A RIVER TO TAKE AWAY BAD LUCK.
NOW, HINA DOLLS ARE FANCIER AND PUT ON DISPLAY IN HOMES UNTIL GIRLS GROW UP.
THIS TOWN COLLECTS THEM FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY... AND COMMEMORATES THE DOLLS ALONG STREETS... IN TEMPLES, SHRINES, SHOPS AND A LARGE SCHOOL.
(SOT)
(SUPER = Hayashi Hiromo, Visitor from Tokyo)
We heard great things about the Katsuura Hina Doll Festival and now since we have a 7-month-old daughter, we decided to come here today.
FESTIVAL TURNOUT WAS LOWER THAN EXPECTED THIS YEAR, BUT USUALLY DRAWS UP TO 300-THOUSAND TOURISTS IN ITS TWO-WEEK RUN.
AS TRADITION HOLDS, ALL THE DOLLS WERE QUICKLY SCOOPED UP AND PUT AWAY MARCH 3RD.
IF DISPLAYED PAST THAT DATE - IT COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR A WOMAN'S MARRIAGE PROSPECTS.
CINDY SHARP, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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Hina Matsuri is the Doll Festival also known as Girls' Day when dolls are put on display to pray for girls' health and success. The dolls depict the Heian Era Court (794-1885). A Hinadan display can have as many as seven tiers.
At Ichihime Shrine in Kyoto they do a living doll depiction with 10 characters from the set called Hito Hina. Hina Matsuri is on March 3rd and the event starts at 1 across from the shrine at Hitomachi Koryukan.
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The Rabbit with RED ???? has Supernatural Powers according to HINAMATSURI tradition! I went to the very famous display at Keio Plaza Hotel to enjoy the party!! Here what Wikipedia says: The festival was traditionally known as the Peach Festival (桃の節句 Momo no Sekku), as peach trees typically began to flower around this time. Although this is no longer true since the shift to Gregorian dates, the name remains and peaches are still symbolic of the festival.
The primary aspect of Hinamatsuri is the display of seated male and female dolls (the obina (男雛) and mebina (女雛), literally male doll and female doll respectively, which represent a Heian period wedding, but usually described as the Emperor and Empress of Japan), usually on red cloth. These may be as simple as pictures or folded paper, or intricately carved three-dimensional dolls. More elaborate displays will include a multi-tiered doll stand (雛壇 hinadan) of dolls that represent ladies of the court, musicians, and other attendants, with all sorts of accoutrements. The entire set of dolls and accessories is called the hinazakari (雛盛り) The number of tiers and dolls a family may have depends on their budget.
Families normally ensure that girls have a set of the two main dolls before her first Hinamatsuri. The dolls are usually fairly expensive ($1,500 to $2,500 for a five-tier set, depending on quality) and may be handed down from older generations as heirlooms. The hinazakari spends of most of the year in storage, and girls and their mothers begin setting up the display a few days before 3 March (boys normally do not participate, as 5 May, now Children's Day was historically called Boys' Day). Traditionally, the dolls were supposed to be put away by the day after Hinamatsuri, the superstition being that leaving the dolls any longer will result in a late marriage for the daughter ????????
Town overrun by dolls for annual festival
It's an amazing sight - a sea of red, peppered with the delicate painted faces of thousands of dolls.
Estimates vary, but here in Katsuura organisers say around 23,000 of these Hina dolls are on display.
They're set to attract between 200,000 and 300,000 visitors during the Hina Doll Festival's 10 to 15 day period.
That's no small feat for a town of just 20,000 people.
Luckily for the locals here they've been helped by another Japanese location which shares the same name.
Katsuura in the Tokushima Prefecture began collecting unused dolls from all over Japan years ago - using them to commemorate the Hina Doll Festival.
For the last fourteen years, city officials and members of the local community there worked together during the Hina Festival period to put on display of as many dolls as possible.
Now, Katsuura in the Tokushima Prefecture has helped by donating dolls to this town's project.
With that donation, displays now line the streets, while temples and shrines lend their spaces to create striking displays.
Traditionally, most Hina doll displays are arranged in rows of just 5 or 7 steps, but in Katsuura displays like this are much larger.
Here at Tomisaki Shrine, 1,300 dolls are covering the 60 steps which lead right to the top.
Each morning, these dolls are carefully laid out around 8am by local volunteers, then collected again at around 7pm.
Tomisaki Shrine curator, Mr.Kobayashi, explains the tradition behind the Doll Festival - or Hina Matsuri as it's known in Japan.
The Hina Matsuri has always been a festival to celebrate and bring happiness to women, he says.
It began back in the Heian period and it was always held on March 3rd. Back in the days people would get in the river with dolls they had made of straw. The dolls symbolised the people who made them and were said to hold any negativity or bad karma that person might have had. Then the dolls were floated on the river with the hope they'd take with them any bad luck.
Of course, over time playing with dolls became a popular pastime among the upper-classes.
Because of this, the dolls became more elaborate and were no longer floated down rivers but rather put on display.
While the symbolism of the dolls as a purifying force still holds today, these dolls are kept each year then reused.
Kobayashi explains that most of the dolls on display here were most likely abandoned by their previous owners.
Usually when a baby girl is born, parents and grandparents buy Hina dolls for their daughter or grand daughter, he says.
When the child is small these dolls are put on display every year but as the girl grows older people stop doing it and the dolls that the family had end up in closets or storage rooms. Fourteen years ago the town of Katsuura in Tokushima Prefecture began collecting all these unused dolls from all over Japan and put them on display as a way of commemorating them.
Kobayashi says his Tomisaki Shrine display may well be the biggest in the country.
The dolls are displayed here on 60 steps, he says. Usually Hina dolls are displayed on 5 or 7 steps, so in that sense, considering the height of these steps, this is the largest display in Japan.
Hayashi Hiromo is a housewife visiting from Tokyo, she came because of her daughter:
We heard great things about the Katsuura Hina Doll Festival and now since we have a 7-month-old daughter, we decided to come here today, she says.
Throughout Katsuura, there are doll displays outside shops and on street corners.
Mitsuko Yashiro is Chairwoman of the Katsuura Society: We have Hina Doll displays throughout the city to encourage people to visit the whole town. There are also another couple of places where the dolls are displayed on stone steps.
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In a small Japanese town dolls outnumbered the residents for the last two weeks. Some 23,000 small,
PKG SCRIPT:
(SUPER = Katsuura, Japan)
(SUPER = March 3)
IN THIS SMALL JAPANESE TOWN, DOLLS OUTNUMBERED THE RESIDENTS FOR THE LAST MANY DAYS.
AN ESTIMATED 23-THOUSAND SMALL DOLLS WITH DELICATELY-PAINTED FACES WERE DISPLAYED IN THE TOWN OF KATSUURA, TWO HOURS OUTSIDE TOKYO.
THE ANNUAL HINA DOLL FESTIVAL, OR HINA MATSURI IN JAPANESE, HONORS WOMEN.
(SOT)
(SUPER = Mr. Kobayashi, Curator, Tomisaki Shrine)
The Hina Matsuri has always been a festival to celebrate and bring happiness to women.
THE DOLLS ARE SEEN AS A PURIFYING FORCE.
GENERATIONS AGO FAMILIES WOULD BUY STRAW VERSIONS FOR YOUNG GIRLS, WHO WOULD FLOAT THEM DOWN A RIVER TO TAKE AWAY BAD LUCK.
NOW, HINA DOLLS ARE FANCIER AND PUT ON DISPLAY IN HOMES UNTIL GIRLS GROW UP.
THIS TOWN COLLECTS THEM FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY... AND COMMEMORATES THE DOLLS ALONG STREETS... IN TEMPLES, SHRINES, SHOPS AND A LARGE SCHOOL.
(SOT)
(SUPER = Hayashi Hiromo, Visitor from Tokyo)
We heard great things about the Katsuura Hina Doll Festival and now since we have a 7-month-old daughter, we decided to come here today.
FESTIVAL TURNOUT WAS LOWER THAN EXPECTED THIS YEAR, BUT USUALLY DRAWS UP TO 300-THOUSAND TOURISTS IN ITS TWO-WEEK RUN.
AS TRADITION HOLDS, ALL THE DOLLS WERE QUICKLY SCOOPED UP AND PUT AWAY MARCH 3RD.
IF DISPLAYED PAST THAT DATE - IT COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR A WOMAN'S MARRIAGE PROSPECTS.
CINDY SHARP, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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Hina Matsuri (Doll's Day) 2018
When I heard the Japanese Society of Northern Ireland was due to hold it’s annual Hina Matsuri Festival in Whitehead, I just had to go along. And I’m pleased that I did because I had a great day and met some lovely people.
Hina Matsuri is a Japanese festival to pray for the health and happiness of girls. It’s also known as Doll’s Day because central to the celebrations is a display of dolls dressed in ancient court costumes. And they are really rather fascinating.
In this video I cover more about the tradition and meet some of the great people taking part in it.
Episode 37 was filmed on Saturday 3rd March 2018.
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Dolls, Peaches, and Spring - Hinamatsuri Is March 3
March 3rd is Hinamatsuri, the doll festival, a special day to pray for the growth and happiness of young girls. Many places throughout Japan will be covered with unlimited shades of pink as people celebrate the early spring festival.
Hinamatsuri is also called momo no sekku, or the peach festival, since March is the peach blossom season in the lunar calendar. In ancient China, the momo (peach) was believed to have the power to expel evil spirits and this tradition was brought to Japan by aristocrats visiting China during Heian era (794-1185) but eventually spread to all classes and became one of Japan’s annual festivals.
A few days before Hinamatsuri, families often set up the hina-ningyo, special dolls for their daughters. The dolls are believed to function as effigies that protect the house from evil spirits. By displaying dolls once a year, the parents wish for their daughters’ long and healthy life. Once all the dolls are lined up in the correct position, the stand is decorated with peach blossoms.
Families often get together and enjoy traditional dishes such as, chirashi-zushi (sushi rice topped with fish and other “lucky” ingredients), clam soup, hina-arare (colorful rice crackers), and hishimochi (diamond-shaped multicolored rice cakes) while drinking shirozake (white-sake), while girls often wear elaborate kimono gowns as they pretend to be a prince or a princess.
Enjoy the early days of spring!
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かつうらビッグひな祭り２０１９に行ってきました。
場所は、千葉県勝浦市のＪＲ勝浦駅周辺です。
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２０１８かつうらビッグひな祭り（千葉県勝浦市）
２０１８かつうらビッグひな祭りに行ってきました。
場所は、千葉県勝浦市のＪＲ勝浦駅そばです。
開催期間は、平成30年2月23日(金)～3月4日(日)です。
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