Hina Matsuri Festival (Original vs Toy Collectors version)

[reideen96]

History


Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival) takes place on March 3 and celebrates "Girls' Day". This is the day families pray for the happiness and prosperity of their girls and to help ensure that they grow up healthy and beautiful. The celebration takes place both inside the home and at the seashore. Both parts are meant to ward off evil spirits from girls.

A girl's first "Girls' Day" is called her hatzu-zekku. On a girl's hatzu-zekku it is very popular for the girl's granparents to buy her a display like the one at the right. This display can have up to seven tiers with dolls and small furniture. At the top is always the dolls of the emperor and empress with a miniature gilded screen placed behind them, very much like how it is in the imperial court.

Most families take out this display of dolls around mid-February and put it away immediately after Hina Matsuri is over. There is a superstition that says that families slow to put away the dolls will have trouble marrying off their daughters!


Original version

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Toy Collectors version

http://i17.tinypic.com/42lf7gp.jpg

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http://i12.tinypic.com/44tb690.jpg

http://i18.tinypic.com/2v94r5s.jpg

[Urahara_Store]

=)) =)) =))
Luckily don't have one all TFs and convoy with megatron as the Emperor and Empress :laugh: Ahboh sure laugh until pengz=))

[des_yeo03]

Hahaa, good read on the history....The toy collector version sort of spice it up.....:laugh:

[Dio]

oh! oh!
is this the one where the local doll community also tries to imitate but brings korean dolls to this japanese festival?

[Miracle]

I seriously think someone can do a TF ver.

KiraDude maybe can do a SOC or SS ver. for us. =))

[Hades]

Somebody can decorate with Saint Seiya Myth cloth series as well?? :D