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Hinamatsuri(日本女儿节)介绍：
The Japanese Doll Festival, or Girls' Day, is held on March 3, the third day of the third month. Platforms with a red hi-mōsen are used to display a set of ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.
Origin and customs:
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, 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. Also people have stopped doing this now because of fishermen catching the dolls in their nets. They now send them out in to the 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 amazake, a sweet, non-alcoholic version of sake made from fermented rice; the customary food is colored arare, bite-sized crackers flavored with soy sauce. Chirashizushi (sushi rice flavored with sugar, vinegar, topped with raw fish and a variety of ingredients) is often eaten. A soy sauce-based soup is also served 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.
In popular culture:
References to the holiday and its activities are often referred to in film and music. Dating as far back as 1930's, the Hinamatsuri has been the subject of Japanese film, such as Hinamatsuri no yoru. More recently, the J-pop group the Mini Moni released a song Minimoni Hinamatsuri! which sings of the joy of the day.
This custom has also been shown in anime series such as Ojamajo Doremi and Keroro Gunsou. It was instrumental in solving the case in the episode "Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun" in season 11 of Case Closed.
A Hinaningyo display is obtainable by players in the Nintendo Wii game, Animal Crossing-City Folk.
An episode of the original Pokémon series, Princess vs. Princess, Girl's day was the main area in the episode. Unfortunately, due to cultural differences between America and Japan, this episode wasn't aired until several months later, along with The Purr-fect Hero (which happened on Kids Day, another Japanese Festival). Until the episode was aired it created a plot hole, because this was the episode where Jesse caught her Lickitung.
Hinamatsuri(日本女儿节)介绍：
The Japanese Doll Festival, or Girls' Day, is held on March 3, the third day of the third month. Platforms with a red hi-mōsen are used to display a set of ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.
Origin and customs:
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, 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. Also people have stopped doing this now because of fishermen catching the dolls in their nets. They now send them out in to the 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 amazake, a sweet, non-alcoholic version of sake made from fermented rice; the customary food is colored arare, bite-sized crackers flavored with soy sauce. Chirashizushi (sushi rice flavored with sugar, vinegar, topped with raw fish and a variety of ingredients) is often eaten. A soy sauce-based soup is also served 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.
In popular culture:
References to the holiday and its activities are often referred to in film and music. Dating as far back as 1930's, the Hinamatsuri has been the subject of Japanese film, such as Hinamatsuri no yoru. More recently, the J-pop group the Mini Moni released a song Minimoni Hinamatsuri! which sings of the joy of the day.
This custom has also been shown in anime series such as Ojamajo Doremi and Keroro Gunsou. It was instrumental in solving the case in the episode "Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun" in season 11 of Case Closed.
A Hinaningyo display is obtainable by players in the Nintendo Wii game, Animal Crossing-City Folk.
An episode of the original Pokémon series, Princess vs. Princess, Girl's day was the main area in the episode. Unfortunately, due to cultural differences between America and Japan, this episode wasn't aired until several months later, along with The Purr-fect Hero (which happened on Kids Day, another Japanese Festival). Until the episode was aired it created a plot hole, because this was the episode where Jesse caught her Lickitung.