Ohinasama

 Do you know that in Japan, we use 6 day Buddhist calender? Every six days, we have the luckiest day, "Taian", and worst day "Butsumetsu" etc... Many people choose some important date depend on this Buddhist Calender. 


Today was "Taian", which is the luckiest day. So we chose this day to put out our "Ohinasama dolls". 


March 3rd is the day for the girls called "Hina Matsuri". We display special set of dolls only during this season. The rest of the season, they sleep quietly in the wooden box... 


Actually, in Mogami, where we have lots of snow, we celebrate this "Hina matsuri" on April 3rd instead of March 3rd since March is not yet spring...  But we start displaying these dolls this time of the year. 


Aren't they pretty? It took a whole day for my mother and my sister and I put out all these precious dolls. They are so delicate! Some dolls are more than 150years old. They came from Kyoto through the Mogami river merchandice in Edo period.


Last year, my grand-ma passed away and for that reason we didn't display these dolls... So they saw the light today after sleeping in the dark box for 2 years!


Nice to see you precious dolls! Many houses in the community display dolls and on April 3rd, all the girls in the community visit each house to admire the dolls, (and receive sweets). 


It's just so lovely to see them. 


This weekend, we'll have the snow digging world cup ! Yeah!!!