{"id":38318,"date":"2023-03-03T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e9%9b%9b%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a%ef%bc%88%e6%a1%83%e3%81%ae%e7%af%80%e5%8f%a5%ef%bc%89%e3%81%af%e3%81%84%e3%81%a4%e9%a0%83%e5%a7%8b%e3%81%be%e3%81%a3%e3%81%9f%ef%bc%9f"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:00:12","slug":"%e9%9b%9b%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a%ef%bc%88%e6%a1%83%e3%81%ae%e7%af%80%e5%8f%a5%ef%bc%89%e3%81%af%e3%81%84%e3%81%a4%e9%a0%83%e5%a7%8b%e3%81%be%e3%81%a3%e3%81%9f%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e9%9b%9b%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a%ef%bc%88%e6%a1%83%e3%81%ae%e7%af%80%e5%8f%a5%ef%bc%89%e3%81%af%e3%81%84%e3%81%a4%e9%a0%83%e5%a7%8b%e3%81%be%e3%81%a3%e3%81%9f%ef%bc%9f","title":{"rendered":"When did the Hina Matsuri (Peach Festival) begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/plan\/?&#038;plan_category%5B%5D=%E3%81%9D%E3%81%AE%E4%BB%96%E3%81%AE%E4%BC%9D%E7%B5%B1%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E3%83%BB%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96\">Other Traditional &#038; Japanese Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>When did the Hina Matsuri (Peach Festival) begin?<span class=\"ruby\">(hinamatsuri).<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e3%81%b2%e3%81%aa%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a\">Dolls&#8217; Festival<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e6%a1%83%e3%81%ae%e7%af%80%e5%8f%a5\">peach festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  It is also called Joushi-no-Sekku or Momo-no-Sekku (Peach Festival). There are various theories about the origin of Hinamatsuri, but it is believed to be a fusion of the custom of entrusting misfortunes to &#8220;hitokata&#8221; (dolls) and throwing them into the river, Hiina-asobi (a game played with a pair of small paper dolls, male and female) in the Heian period, and Kami-no-Sekku on March 3 (when people used to transfer dirt from their bodies to dolls to ward off bad luck). In the Edo period (1603-1867), the event became a festival to wish for the healthy growth of girls. Hina dolls and peach blossoms are decorated and celebrated with water chestnuts, hina arare (sweetened rice cakes), and white sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other Traditional &#038; Japanese Culture When did the Hina Matsuri (Peach Festival) begin?(hinamatsuri). Dolls&#8217; Festivalpeach festival It is also called Joushi-no-Sekku or Momo-no-Sekku (Peach Festival). There are various theories about the origin of Hinamatsuri, but it is believed to be a fusion of the custom of entrusting misfortunes to &#8220;hitokata&#8221; (dolls) and throwing them into the river, Hiina-asobi (a game played with a pair of small paper dolls, male and female) in the Heian period, and Kami-no-Sekku on March 3 (when people used to transfer dirt from their bodies to dolls to ward off bad luck). In the Edo period (1603-1867), the event became a festival to wish for the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4282,4917,4932,4933],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column-en","category-traditional-culture-dictionary-by-agatajapan-en","tag-other-traditional-japanese-culture-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en","tag-hinamatsuri-en","tag-momo-no-sekku-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38318"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}