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	Japanese traditional dolls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Girls played with dolls and doll houses; women made protective dolls for their children or grandchildren; dolls were used in religious ceremonies, taking on the sins of a person whom they had touched.
		Hina dolls are the dolls for Hina Matsuri, the Doll Festival, also known as Momo no Sekku or the Peach Festival.
		There is no specified "set" of such dolls; subjects include Emperor Jimmu, Empress Jingu with her prime minister Takenouchi holding her newborn imperial son, Shoki the Demon-Queller, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his generals and tea-master, and fairy-tale figures such as Momotaro the Peach Boy or Kintaro the Golden Boy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_traditional_dolls (1206 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Both of these dolls are said to have been the inspiration and ancestors of the male and female hina dolls to come later.
		Hina doll sets are still being produced today but not with the same materials or craftsmanship as those in the past.
		Kamo dolls origininated at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto in 1736-40 by Takahashi Tadashige, a ritual object craftsman at the shrine.
	www.yoshinoantiques.com /ningyo.html (3840 words)

	J-List -- You've got a friend in Japan!
		Hina Matsuri (or Doll's Festival) is an integral part of the celebration of young girls in Japan.
		The dolls, usually represented on large tiers and centered around an emperor and empress and their court, represent the wishes of the parents for their daughter to marry prosperously and happily.
		March 3 is the Hina Matsuri (or Doll's Festival) that is an integral part of the celebration of young girls in Japan.
	www.jlist.com /SEARCH/hina_doll (652 words)

	Girls' Day Dolls
		The Nagashi-bina ritual still exists at some Japanese shrines; a boatload of dolls (big display dolls, not paper dolls) is sent to sea on March 3 in connection with the Awashima Shrine of Wakayama Prefecture, a shrine particularly important for women, who pray there for good fortune in marriage and childbirth.
		Similar hina float in round straw "boats" on the river at Hina Matsuri, in a ceremony "for the safety of children" at Shimogamo Shrine near Kyoto.
		Burning Dolls in Ueno Park is a "traveler's tale" of stumbling upon the annual September 25 ceremony in Tokyo.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/hina.htm (1307 words)

	Visual Japan: Hina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		*"Hina" or "Hina Ningyo (Hina dolls) is a set of dolls displayed for "Hina Matsuri (Hina** festival) " on 3rd March.
		When a girl is born, parents buy a set for her first Hina Matsuri, "Hatsu zekku." However since many Japanese live in narrow houses, royal couple version, with only prince and princess is popular.
		Hina set is displayed only for a month.
	www.harapan.co.jp /english/JPImage_e/hina_e.htm (378 words)

	[RMSC Collections Department] Nagasaki Tamako - Doll Festival: Hina Matsuri
		An area is set aside in the main room of the house for the doll display and a structure of five to seven steps is built and covered with red cloth.
		Dolls are displayed on the steps in a specific arrangement meant to depict the Imperial Court during the Heian period (794-1192), with the Emperor and Emperess at the top dressed in ceremonial attire.
		The "blue-eyed" dolls arrived just in time for this festival in 1927, and in some cases, were incorporated into the traditional display in the schools.
	collections.rmsc.org /NagasakiTamako/HinaMatsuri.html (204 words)

	Japan Photo Documentary - Japanese Doll Festival, Hina Matsuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Hina Matsuri is a Japanese doll festival, also known as Momo-no-Sekku the "Peach Festival." It is held every year on March 3rd and is a time during which people pray for the well being of young girls.
		The dolls of today are exquisite and costly works of art, usually dressed with real kimonos.
		The dolls are displayed on a five or seven-tiered shelf (hina-dan), with the emperor and empress (dairi-sama), dressed in ancient court costumes, occupying the place of honor on the top tier.
	www.nativeplanet.org /reportages/japan/japantxt4.htm (364 words)

	The Boone Collection - Image Gallery: Japanese Dolls
		The amagatsu and hoko (for information about these dolls, see History of Japanese Dolls) did not develop as a pair, but independently, but by the Muromachi period (1336-1568), the two dolls would often be displayed together as a pair, and are thought to be direct ancestors of modern dairi-bina.
		The male's outstretched arms were continued in early hina males and females, as was the significant difference in height between the amagatsu and the much smaller hoko.
		Kokin and similar style dolls remain popular today, although heads are often constructed with the toso technique, a molding of a mixture of kiri, or paulownia, wood sawdust and funorin, a seaweed glue, or with sekko, a plaster-like substance.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /research_Collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/boone/dolls/gal_jp_hina.html (930 words)

	Small and Pretty: Japanese Hina Dolls - Masako Katoh
		Yet in the display of dolls are blended elements of prehistoric symbols and the ancient Chinese calendar.
		As Hina Matsuri approaches, the best room (or a reception room called O-zashiki) in a typical Japanese household is occupied by a set of Hina-ningyo (Hina dolls--the Japanese world for doll is ningyo.
		Hina dolls are appreciated as objects of aesthetic beauty that mirror Japan's cultural history.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1991/March/Sa19757.htm (301 words)

	Rinkya - Japan Auction & Shopping Service - Hina Ningyou, Japanese Dolls, Girls' Day, Doll Festival, Hina Matsuri, Hina ...
		Although the classic doll sets are not a collectible everyone will wish to buy--a complete fifteen-doll, fully accessoried set, even if bought a piece at a time, can run more than $10,000 and probably cannot be had for less than $5000--Hina Matsuri and hina ningyou have made their way throughout Japanese culture.
		Hina dougu (lit., "hina props"): This term actually includes the accessories higher up on the hina dan as well, and sometimes those are sold in sets with the ones on the lowest steps.
		Dolls from a given period are more likely to be made in exactly the same style and therefore to look like a set even if they weren't originally.
	www.rinkya.com /newsletter/01132004.php (4657 words)

	Lotz Interests: Japanese Festival Dolls
		Early festival dolls were carved from wood, but other materials, and techniques were used in later dolls to economically mass-produce these very popular dolls.
		Dolls representing an imperial couple are are dressed in the imperial fashions of a particular era.
		dolls are dressed in replicas of the costumes worn at an imperial wedding as a commemoration of the event.
	www.lotzdollpages.com /ljapfst.html (935 words)

	Hina Matsuri - Explore Japan - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The dolls wear costumes of the imperial court during the Heian period (794-1192) and are placed on a tiered platform covered with red felt.
		The size of the dolls and number of steps vary, but usually the displays are of five or seven layers; single-tiered decorations with one male and one female doll are also common.
		Most families take their beautiful collection of dolls out of the closet around mid-February and put it away again as soon as Hina Matsuri is over.
	web-japan.org /kidsweb/calendar/march/hinamatsuri.html (358 words)

	a n g e l 's a n i m e: October 2004
		Hina is an extremely bossy and clingy doll due to her former owner's abandonment, so she always wants Tomoe to be around and play with her.
		She confronts Hina and tells her she wants to play the "Alice" game with her (which apparently involves a doll taking away another doll's "Rosa Mystica" which allows them to move and talk), but Shinku's energy is halved because Jun is not there, and Hina is able to tie her up in vines.
		Hina is now Shinku's servant and goes to live with her, as well as Jun and Nori of course, which Jun is not thrilled about, but Nori seems to think Hina is adorable.
	angelsanime.blogspot.com /2004_10_01_angelsanime_archive.html (7608 words)

	Hina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Hina are small dolls for girls and existed since the Heian Period(794-1185).
		A "doll Emperor and Empress in ancient costume," patterned after the Emperor and Empress, are placed on the highest tier of a five- or seven-tiered stand covered with a red carpet, and under them come the "Minister of the Right, Minister of the Lest," the "three court ladies", and the "five court musicians," among others.
		The origin of hinamatsuri is an ancient Chinese practice in which the sin of the boby and misfortune are transferred to a doll and washed away by setting the doll in a river to drift away.
	members.cox.net /hiro.ueda/Hina.html (203 words)

	Doll Festival, All Areas, Japan
		Hina Matsuri translates into “doll festival” but this fun holiday is more commonly known as Girls Day and is celebrated every March 3rd.
		Traditionally, two dolls representing the emperor and empress are positioned on the top level of the display stand which is draped in red cloth.
		Hina Matsuri has been celebrated for many centuries throughout Asia and, as often is the case, it is said to have begun in China.
	www.2camels.com /destination93.php3 (740 words)

	Hina Matsuri from Rumela's Web
		In this festival, dolls are loaded up in boats and sent out to sea with the wish that they take impurities and evil spirits out of the girls and keep them at bay.
		Dolls as toys (hihina), dolls as amulets (hitogata), and dolls as display elements (Kansho) seem to have coexisted for hundreds of years, one form influencing another, and creating yet new forms.
		The dolls are displayed on a five or seven-tiered shelf (hina-dan), with the place of honour going to the highly valued emperor and empress (dairi-sama) dressed in ancient court costumes.
	www.rumela.com /events/hina_matsuri.htm (586 words)

	Hina
		Hina doll sets consist of a seven-tiered display stand, with as many as 15 dolls, and possibly small furniture and lamps.
		They put away the hina doll display son after the festival because it is believed that if the are lazy and waste time putting it away then their daughter(s) may have to wait longer to get married.
		The origin of the Hina-Matsuri stems from a Chinese ceremony in which people let paper doll go in a river to symbolize their sins from the previous year are transferred to the dolls and then taken away by the river.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~dhuffman/soc306/s02grp1/index4.html (500 words)

	Antique Japanese dolls
		The hina were usually cloth over a straw filled wire armature with carved wooden hands and sculpted "gofun" (powdered seashell) faces.
		A hina doll set ranged from just the imperial pair (emperor and empress) to the full imperial court (15 dolls) including furniture (sewing boxes, kyodai, chests of drawers, palaquins, ox carts, lanterns, tables, bowls, etc).
		Most unusual were the goten (doll houses) in front of which the imperial court dolls were arranged.
	www.saberdesigns.cc /dolls.htm (753 words)

	Hina Matsuri in Japan
		This is the day families pray for the happiness and prosperity of their girls and to help ensure that they grow up healthy and beautiful.
		At the top is always the dolls of the emperor and empress with a miniature gilded screen placed behind them, very much like how it is in the imperial court.
		Most families take out this display of dolls around mid-February and put it away immediately after Hina Matsuri is over.
	farstrider.net /Japan/Festivals/HinaMatsuri (330 words)

	[RMSC Collections Department] Nagasaki Tamako - The "Blue-Eyed" Dolls
		A total of 12,739 "mama" dolls were sent from the children of America to those in Japan, in time for the tradional Doll Festival, Hina Matsuri in March.
		The impression made by these dolls was great; songs and poems were written about them, and Japanese children felt connected to their brothers and sisters in America through their new doll playmates.
		Many of the dolls were destroyed in the fervor of World War II, but many were carefully and lovingly preserved and thus managed to continue their mission even through dark times.
	collections.rmsc.org /NagasakiTamako/BlueEyed.html (227 words)

	Mama Lisa's World Blog
		Hina Matsuri, The Doll Festival in Japan is on March 3rd
		These are a set of dolls that are handed down from generation to generation which are only taken out for this festival.
		The hina ningyo are displayed on a special stand that has tiers which are covered in red cloth.
	www.mamalisa.com /blog/?p=209 (647 words)

	Hina Matsuri
		Dolls are displayed in the house together with peach blossoms.
		The doll festival has its origin in a Chinese custom in which bad fortune is transferred to dolls and then removed by abandoning the doll on a river.
		On Hina Matsuri, sweet sake is drunken and chirashi sushi is eaten.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2281.html (93 words)

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		During the festival, dolls representing ancient emperors, empresses and their subordinates are decorated beautifully.
		Making these dolls were symbolic of transferring their ill fortunes or sickness to the dolls.
		The dolls were then cast into the river as were the evils from the lives of the family.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~dhuffman/soc306/sp04grp03/Hina_Matsuri.htm (640 words)

	This month's feature: DOLLS
		On Girl's day (Hina festival), the 3rd of March, parents would pray for the happiness and health of their young daughters.
		The dolls' apparel and furniture resemble that of nobleman's family and household.
		Dolls usually are displayed on step stands which resemble a staircase.
	www.harumiantiques.com /website/9-1998/9-1998.html (449 words)

	Mama Lisa's World Blog
		Hina means doll and matsuri means festival, so Hina Matsuri is literally Doll Festival.
		The tradition of displaying dolls for Hina Matsuri dates back to the Edo or Tokugawa Period, which was from about 1600 to 1867.
		The girls will place two paper dolls in a boat made of wood or straw with rice cakes to take away bad luck, illness and misfortune.
	www.mamalisa.com /blog/?cat=488 (627 words)

	Asian Art by Kyoko Vintage Arts Directory
		The Girls Days Hina ningyo (doll) set that I grew up with was displayed in the steps style, which still could be a common way of displaying 15 dolls as long as you can afford the space.
		The Hina doll set that I grew up with was displayed in the steps style, which is a common way of displaying 15 dolls with furniture.
		The style of the Hina dolls are from the Heian Period (794 E1192), a good old peaceful day before the barbarians (samurai) came to power.
	www.asianartbykyoko.com /catalog/Vintage_Arts90.html (725 words)

	OSG: OSG/TSG Abstracts 2002: Kaplan
		The doll is a seated female figure dressed in a Heian period style, multi-layered kimono.
		This doll was an ideal student project; its composite nature offered the opportunity to experience treating several different types of materials, combining textile, object, and paper conservation practices.
		Library and on-line research provided an introduction to hina dolls, visits to museums with hina dolls in their collections allowed for further study and comparisons, and a comprehensive analytical study on the doll shed light on construction details.
	aic.stanford.edu /sg/osg/abstracts/js2002/js2002_5.htm (333 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/Archives/Previous Events/Dolls of Japan/-PG.3
		On this day, each family sets out a number of dolls for display, placing a male-female pair of Hina dolls at the top of the display, as a sign of their prayer for the happiness of their young daughters.
		Ishogi; Shinno-Kazari (Noble Doll) The clothing worn by this noble doll [above] is taken from the costumes worn by nobles of the Heian period (800-1200 A.D.).
		Kimekomi Tachibina (Standing Hina dolls) The "tachibina", the oldest form of Hina doll, has here been reformed in a modern style using techniques developed for making kimekomi ningyo.
	www.sec.state.la.us /archives/dolls/doll-3.htm (123 words)

	Japanese Festivals - Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival) - Southeast Asia @ AS42.com
		Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival is celebrated on March 3.
		The paper dolls embody the impurities and evil spirt of the girls.
		The Hina dolls' exhibition, erected weeks earlier, are in homes and many businesses.
	www.as42.com /cache/?K=143A1A3r2L3l (1953 words)

	Antique & Collectible Dolls from Antique Networking
		This type of doll has been very popular since the Edo period, and...
		This type of doll has been very popular since the Edo period, and is typically crafted...
		This type of doll has been very popular since the Edo period, and is typically...
	www.antiqnet.com /category,dolls_223.html (271 words)

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