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Hinamatsuri

Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Festival) - Hina-ningyo - These Hinamatsuri web pages explain what each of Hinamatsuri dolls is.

Hinamatsuri – Wikipedia - This article explains the placement of the ornamental dolls and the origin of the festival.

Japanese

Doll Festival in Japan – This article on Mama Lisa’s World Blog discusses displays, origami and special food for Hina Matsuri.

Hina Matsuri in Japan - This page offers several photographs taken during the festival.

Hina Matsuri / Doll Festival - Description of Doll’s Day is celebration.

雛祭り

Photos of Japanese dolls on Flickr

Antique hina doll photos at the "Japan Toy Museum

All about Japanese Hina Dolls - This page on the Web site of the Kyoto National Museum is available in both English and Japanese.

Momo-No-Sekku - Hina doll paper craft - Downloadable hina doll paper craft with directions.

Japanese dolls display
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ひなまつりのペーパークラフトです -   Many downloadable hina paper crafts.

ひな祭り グリーティングカード - Make a Hinamatsuri eCard and send it to your friend.  

Origami Hino Dolls with instructions and illustrations   Traditional Japanese Festival: Matsuri – Song of the girls' festival in Japan – The Ojamajo's Hina Matsuri:   YouTube video.  

Happy Dolls Festival - Hina Matsuri Song – Text of the song in Japanese, in romaji and in English translation. Also available on this page are MP3 and MIDI sound files and sheet music for this song.

Hinamatsuri Worksheet in English d and in Japanese d. These were created by Shunko Muroya, Japanese Advisor, Alberta Education.