Floating Ceremony of Paper Hina Dolls (Nagashibina)
Floating Ceremony of Paper Hina Dolls (Nagashibina)
Nagashi-bina is an event that involves dispelling impurities and misfortunes by floating dolls away on river or sea.
This was called “Nagashi-bina”. Because this was done around the time peach flowers bloom, it has come to be called “Momo no Sekku”, but it used to be called “Joshi no Sekku”.
Displaying dolls indoors became a practice quite a while later.
On this day girls and women dedicate dolls to the shrine deity. The dolls are brought to the beach at Kada and floated away on a wooden boat, taking with them all evils and sicknesses that befall women.”
A boatload of dolls ( Nagashbina sets)
In this rite, dry straw or wood is woven into a boat, which carries a pair of male and female paper dolls to be cast adrift in the river or sea. As it has become quite a rare event, in recent years it has come to attract visitors by the busload.
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