print email comment close All About Japanese Hina Dolls URL: http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/data/senshoku/ Description: "Every year on March 3rd, Japan celebrates the Doll Festival (Japanese, Hina Matsuri). Until recently, Girls' Day was also celebrated on March 3rd. On this day every year, families set up a special step-altar on which to arrange their Emperor and Empress dolls, called 'hina' in Japanese." This site describes and provides images of these dolls and doll altars. From the Kyoto Museum. Publisher: Kyoto Museum LII Database Information: Record 23402 created by Maria Brandt on 02/23/2007 Last modification on 02/26/2007 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 06/08/2007 Published: 02/28/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23402