Hinamatsuri
3 March 2026 — May every girl grow up healthy and happy!
Hinamatsuri, the Doll Festival, is celebrated in Japan every year on 3 March and is dedicated to girls, with wishes for their health and happiness. Families arrange hina dolls on tiers covered with red cloth, dressed in the court robes of old Japan, with the emperor and empress at the top. Peach blossom branches often decorate the display, and the table may include diamond-shaped hishimochi rice cakes and sweet rice drink. The custom is linked to an ancient belief that paper figures could absorb evil and illness; such figures are still set afloat on rivers in some places (nagashi-bina). The festival belongs to the traditional Japanese calendar of five seasonal celebrations (sekku) and under the old lunar calendar fell at the start of spring, when peach trees bloom – hence its other name, the Peach Festival. A popular saying holds that the dolls should be put away promptly after the festival.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver figure made of luminous dots and fine lines like a constellation: two small court dolls in flowing ancient robes, drifting side by side on a blossoming peach branch
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