Hinamatsuri (雛祭り) is a festival for girls held on March 3. Tiered platforms for hina ningyō (雛人形, hina dolls) are set up at home. Families celebrate with a meal, eating hishimochi (菱餅), sweet diamond-shaped rice cakes in pink, white, and green layers, hina-arare (雛あられ), small crisps flavoured with sugar or soy-sauce chirashizushi (ちらし寿司, "scattered sushi"), as well as sakura-mochi (桜餅, sweet pink rice cakes) and drinking shirozake (白酒), sake...
Hina Matsuri
Hina Matsuri