Hina Matsuri - Girl's Day

Happy Girl's Day! Today is Hina Matsuri in Japan. Since we have a daughter, we have been displaying our hina ningyo dolls for a couple weeks now. Technically we should take them down before tomorrow. The superstition is that if you leave the display up after March 3, your daughter won't be able to get married. I think we're going to tempt fate, though and leave it up an extra day so that my parents can see it when they arrive on the fourth.

Our display is pretty simple and cost around 60 USD, but for really nice ones, they can run in the 10s, even 100s of thousands of dollars.

When I have a chance, I like to try and watch the second story/chapter of Kurosawa's "Dreams", which is set during Hina Matsuri and has a beautiful scene in the peach orchard where the dolls come to life and perform a solemn dance and music.