March 3rd is also known as the Japanese Doll Festival or Hina matsuri.
On this day, families with young daughters celebrate this event at home wishing for their daughter's future happiness and prosperity.
They will decorate platforms with red cloth and display a set of ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, court ladies, attendants, five musicians and warriors in traditional court dresses of the Heian era.
These dolls are usually an heirloom of the household, handed down from generation to generation.
During the festival,they are displayed for a few days.After March 3rd, parents have to keep the dolls in their boxes as soon as possible because there is a popular superstition that says if they don't, their daughter will not be able to find a good husband or will marry late.
We got to know in the news that the World Folk Doll Museum in Suzaka City is exhibiting more than 1000 hina dolls collected from all over Japan specially for the doll festival. Hence, we took the opportunity to visit this museum today.
We were glad to know that this museum also houses more than 2000 traditional dolls from all over the world. Here are some of the photos which I took.
The highlight was of course the 1000 hina dolls and other ornaments displayed on 30 platforms.
This is the first time the museum is exhibiting these dolls and it took 20 staff 2 whole days to complete displaying all of them.
The 6m high platform was an extraordinary sight.
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