{"id":2663,"date":"2023-03-03T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T09:49:25","slug":"hinamatsuri-3-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/03\/03\/hinamatsuri-3-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinamatsuri (3 March)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hinamatsuri<\/em> is a Japanese festival that is celebrated every year on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> of March. It is also known as the doll festival, and it celebrates female children where people pray for their continued health and happiness. During the holiday, families display ceramic dolls dressed in the decorative robes of the ancient imperial court.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2664\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 85vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This festival is one of the five <em>sekku<\/em>, or seasonal festivals, that are celebrated throughout the year. The five festivals together are known as <em>gosekku<\/em>, and originate from the Heian period (794-1185). The festivals fell on the first day of the year\u2019s first moth, the third day of the third month and so on \u2013 on the modern calendar they are celebrated on January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, March 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, May 5<sup>th<\/sup>, July 7<sup>th<\/sup> and September 9<sup>th<\/sup>. These dates are considered to be highly favourable due to the doubling of odd numbers for the month and date.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2665\" width=\"308\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/hina-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 85vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dolls that are central to this celebration are displayed on a red-carpeted, stepped platform called a <em>hinadan<\/em>. The displays can vary from very simple to incredibly ornate and originated in the court culture of Kyoto before spreading across the nation in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century. However, once the festival is finished, the dolls and decorations must be quickly packed away, as it is believed that leaving them out too long will harm a daughter\u2019s chances of marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinamatsuri is a Japanese festival that is celebrated every year on the 3rd of March. It is also known as the doll festival, and it celebrates female children where people pray for their continued health and happiness. During the holiday, families display ceramic dolls dressed in the decorative robes of the ancient imperial court. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/03\/03\/hinamatsuri-3-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hinamatsuri (3 March)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","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\/2663","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=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}