{"id":3177,"date":"2014-03-03T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T08:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:34:26","slug":"japanese-girlss-day-march-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-girlss-day-march-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Special day just for girls is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 3rd is a special day for young girls every year in Japan. \u00a0It is called Hinamatsuri (\u3072\u306a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u3001\u96db\u796d\u308a). \u00a0In English, it is called Doll&#8217;s Festival or Girl&#8217;s Day. People in Japan celebrate March 3rd every year, wishing their daughters for their happiness for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hinamatsuri(\u3072\u306a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u3001\u96db\u796d\u308a).<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0originated as an ancient custom called\u00a0<em>hina-nagashi(\u3072\u306a\u306a\u304c\u3057\u3001\u96db\u6d41\u3057)<\/em>, or \u201cdoll floating\u201d where people would float dolls down the river. This is because it was believed that the dolls would carry away the bad spirits with them. Today, this custom still remains. These days,\u00a0the dolls for\u00a0<em>hinanagash<\/em>i are made of paper, and set afloat in little boats that are later recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Today, more commonly, families with daughters display their dolls called\u00a0<em>hina-ningyo(\u3072\u306a\u306b\u3093\u304e\u3087\u3046\u3001\u96db\u4eba\u5f62),<\/em>\u00a0representing the Emperor, Empress, and their attendants dressed in beautiful ancient Heian Period (794-1185) court costumes. The traditional Hinaningyo has 7 tiers. What they display on the\u00a0top tier are two dolls, known as imperial dolls,\u00a0<i>dairi-bina(\u3060\u3044\u308a\u3073\u306a,<i>\u5185\u88cf\u96db<\/i>)<\/i>. These are the Emperor ,called\u00a0Odairi-sama(\u304a\u3060\u3044\u308a\u3055\u307e), and the\u00a0Empress, called\u00a0Ohime-sama in Japanese. Odairi-sama is\u00a0holding a ritual baton, but the\u00a0Ohina-sama is\u00a0holding a fan.\u00a0The words\u00a0<i>dairi<\/i>\u00a0means &#8220;imperial palae&#8221;,\u00a0and\u00a0<i>hime<\/i>\u00a0means &#8220;princess&#8221; in Japanese.The dolls are usually placed in front of a gold folding screen\u00a0<i>byobu (\u3073\u3087\u3046\u3076\u3001\u5c4f\u98a8).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Under neath the Odairi-sama and Ohina-sama is where the three court ladies are displayed. They are called San-nin-kanjo(\u3055\u3093\u306b\u3093\u304b\u3093\u3058\u3087\u3001\uff13\u4eba\u5b98\u5973). The third tier holds the five male musicians each holding a musical equipment except the singer who has fan in his hand. \u00a0They are called Gonin-bayashi(\u3054\u306b\u3093\u3070\u3084\u3057\u3001\u4e94\u4eba\u56c3\u5b50\uff09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There is this special song that girls in Japan sing when it gets closer to March 3rd, called Ureshii-hinamatsuri (\u3046\u308c\u3057\u3044\u3072\u306a\u307e\u3064\u308a). This is such a traditional song to sing for Hinamatsuri, so I would like to share with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3046\u308c\u3057\u3044\u3072\u306a\u307e\u3064\u308a\uff08\u6b4c\u8a5e\u4ed8\uff09\u3000\u6851\u540d\u3000\u8c9e\u5b50\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zv8bCakElM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Although Hinamatsuri is not a national holiday in Japan, they also have another special day for children, this time mainly for boys. It is called &#8220;Children&#8217;s Day(\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u3072\u3001\u5b50\u4f9b\u306e\u65e5) on May 5th every year. \u00a0Children&#8217;s Day is a national holiday in Japan, and I will be writing about the special holiday in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"263\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/03\/hina-263x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/03\/hina-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/03\/hina.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><p>March 3rd is a special day for young girls every year in Japan. \u00a0It is called Hinamatsuri (\u3072\u306a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u3001\u96db\u796d\u308a). \u00a0In English, it is called Doll&#8217;s Festival or Girl&#8217;s Day. People in Japan celebrate March 3rd every year, wishing their daughters for their happiness for many years to come. Hinamatsuri(\u3072\u306a\u307e\u3064\u308a\u3001\u96db\u796d\u308a).\u00a0originated as an ancient custom called\u00a0hina-nagashi(\u3072\u306a\u306a\u304c\u3057\u3001\u96db\u6d41\u3057), or \u201cdoll&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-girlss-day-march-3rd\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}