{"id":1344,"date":"2021-03-03T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:36:41","slug":"hinamatsuri-dolls-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/03\/03\/hinamatsuri-dolls-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinamatsuri\u00a0(Doll&#8217;s Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1345 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/202px-Hinamatsuri_store_display.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"269\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hinamatsuri<\/strong>, also called\u00a0Doll&#8217;s Day\u00a0or\u00a0Girls&#8217; Day, is a special day in Japan. It is celebrated on 3 March of each year, with platforms covered with a red carpet material which are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (\u96db\u4eba\u5f62, hina-ningy\u014d) representing the Emperor and Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian.<\/p>\n<p>Hinamatsuri is one of the five seasonal festivals that are held on auspicious dates of the Chinese calendar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1347\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/empress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/empress.jpg 270w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/empress-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/empress-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1346 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/emperor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/emperor.jpg 270w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/emperor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/emperor-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Families normally ensure that girls have a set of the two main dolls before their first Hinamatsuri and the dolls and may be handed down from older generations as heirlooms. The primary aspect of Hinamatsuri is the display of seated male and female dolls, the Emperor and the Empress, which represent a Heian period wedding. These may be as simple as pictures or folded paper or to the more intricately carved three-dimensional dolls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1348 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/02\/food.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>Typical foods eaten on this day include hina-arare\u00a0 (\u96db\u3042\u3089\u308c)\u00a0(multi-coloured rice crackers), chirashizushi (\u3061\u3089\u3057\u5bff\u53f8)\u00a0(raw fish and vegetables on rice in a bowl) and\u00a0ichigo daifuku\u00a0(\u3044\u3061\u3054\u5927\u798f)\u00a0(strawberries wrapped in adzuki bean\u00a0paste).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinamatsuri, also called\u00a0Doll&#8217;s Day\u00a0or\u00a0Girls&#8217; Day, is a special day in Japan. It is celebrated on 3 March of each year, with platforms covered with a red carpet material which are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (\u96db\u4eba\u5f62, hina-ningy\u014d) representing the Emperor and Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/03\/03\/hinamatsuri-dolls-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hinamatsuri\u00a0(Doll&#8217;s Day)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}