typically features displays of "hina" doll sets. However, with more people living in apartments where space is limited, a ...

featuring a vast collection of “hina” dolls and decorations from the Edo Period (1603-1867) on, is under way at the municipal Kokokan history museum here. The event began in 2012 and has been ...

dazzling tourists with massive displays of around 10,000 “hina” dolls donated from across Japan. The dolls will be on display at various sites throughout the port city of Katsuura until the ...

They floated down a river a straw lid on which hina dolls were placed to drive away bad spirits. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for ...

KATSUURA, Chiba -- A total of about 20,000 "hina" dolls will decorate various locations in this eastern Japan city during the Katsuura Big Hina Matsuri festival from Feb. 22 to March 3.