Mar 2, 2014

Girl's festival "Hina-matsuri" in Makabe, Ibaraki

In Japan, on May 3rd, people celebrate girl's festival called "Hina-matsuri".

In the old days, they used to make paper dolls and let it float away on lakes wishing good health of the family.

Nowadays, people make fascinating dolls as you can see in the picture and celebrate it as girl's festival.

At a city called Makabe in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, they display many kinds of Hina-matsuri dolls, some that are as old as 100 years!!


























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