{"id":1750,"date":"2013-02-23T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2013-05-11T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:24:35","slug":"hina-matsuri-doll-festivals-in-shiga-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/hina-matsuri-doll-festivals-in-shiga-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Hina-matsuri doll festivals in Shiga 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hinamatsuri\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/higashiomi\/gokashoshonin\/037-IMG_3242.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hina dolls in Gokasho. Click image to see more photos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hina-matsuri dolls (\u96db\u796d\u308a\u306e\u96db\u4eba\u5f62) are being displayed at various locations in Shiga to celebrate Girl&#8217;s Day on March 3.<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend of Feb. 23-24, 2013, Gokasho in Higashi-Omi is having a unique event of live hina dolls called Ningen Hina-matsuri (\u306b\u3093\u3052\u3093\u96db\u307e\u3064\u308a). Yes, they are real girls, ten of them, dressed as Hina dolls. They will appear twice on both the 23rd and 24th at\u00a010:00 am to 11:30 am and at 1:30 pm to 3 pm at the\u00a0Omi-shonin merchant home of Tonomura Shigeru\u00a0(\u5916\u6751\u7e41\u90b8).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=109\"><strong>Gokasho, Higashi-Omi:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Normal hina ningyo dolls are also displayed in the Omi-shonin merchant homes and museums. They are on display until March 20 (9 am to 4:30 pm) in the former residences of Tonomura Uhee (\u5916\u6751 \u5b87\u5175\u885b), Tonomura Shigeru (\u5916\u6751 \u7e41), Nakae Jungoro (\u4e2d\u6c5f \u6e96\u4e94\u90ce), and Fujii Hikoshiro (\u85e4\u4e95 \u5f66\u56db\u90ce\u90b8). The homes are large, stately Japanese-style mansions. Must-see for architecture buffs. Buy a single 600 yen ticket and you can enter all the homes. Closest train station is\u00a0Ohmi Railways Gokasho Station. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/bWDtl\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=447\">Omi-Hachiman:<\/a><\/strong> Former\u00a0Ban family residence (\u65e7\u4f34\u5bb6\u4f4f\u5b85) until March 17, 2013 (closed Mon.). Omi merchant home which also served as a girls school and public library until 1997. Spacious room with a large display of Hina dolls.\u00a0The former Nishikawa Residence (Kyu-Nishikawa-ke Jutaku \u65e7\u897f\u5ddd\u5bb6\u4f4f) also has doll display. This is a large Omi merchant home designated as an Important Cultural Property. The Kawara Roof Tile Museum and some shops in central Omi-Hachiman will also have hina doll displays.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/ymNns\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=326\">Hino:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Omi Hino Merchant House (\u8fd1\u6c5f\u65e5\u91ce\u5546\u4eba\u9928) until March 10, 2013. The former home of Hino merchant Yamanaka Hyouemon was donated to the town in 1981. Now a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of the Hino merchants. Admission 300 yen. Another place is Hino Machikado Kan-okan (\u65e5\u91ce\u307e\u3061\u304b\u3069\u611f\u5fdc\u9928) which is a former home along Hino&#8217;s main road. It is also a tourist information office. Free admission. Some shops and homes in central Hino will also\u00a0have hina doll displays. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/dvQFm\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Girl&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p>Japanese hina-matsuri map:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omi-syonin.com\/htm03\/index.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.omi-syonin.com\/htm03\/index.html#page=1<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/cPKfp\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hina-matsuri dolls (\u96db\u796d\u308a\u306e\u96db\u4eba\u5f62) are being displayed at various locations in Shiga to celebrate Girl&#8217;s Day on March 3. On the weekend of Feb. 23-24, 2013, Gokasho in Higashi-Omi is having a unique event of live hina dolls called Ningen Hina-matsuri&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,44,6,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-shiga-prefecture","category-winter","category-higashiomi","category-hino","category-omihachiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}