Hina Matsuri is on March 3rd, a day called Momo no Sekku
It's a festival held for young girls
My mother displays hina dolls for Yuka* every year *his sister
These dolls protect young girls from disease and accidents...
...by drawing the ills and bad luck out from the girls, and suffering in place of them
So, these dolls are displayed to help girls grow healthily and happily
Usually we begin displaying them once setsubun* is finished... *the day before spring
...so the beginning of spring, about February 4th, or at the latest the 24th
[They are displayed until March 3rd...]
[...the day of Hina Matsuri]
Our hina dolls are made in Kyoto...
...and we don't really know why, but Odairi-sama's [the emperor]...
...well, the man and the woman's* seats are reversed *Ohina-sama
Well, since our dolls are Kyosei...
...which means made in Kyoto...
Odairi-sama and Ohina-sama's places are switched
Normally it's the opposite
Hishi-mochi* *diamond-shaped rice cakes
Well, this isn't the real thing
How do you call that?
Imitation?
Model?
Usually you display real mochi, but...
Kyoto...
Kyosei means Kyoto-sei*, right? *made in Kyoto
Hina
Hina dolls
When Yuka was little...
Did I wear it?
No, you didn't
How old was she when...
On her first Hina Matsuri
So when she was a baby
When she was small, really young...
Probably her first Hina Matsuri... [she wore one]
There are seven steps
Are there really seven steps there?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...
This one has two
There is a song...
...about Hina Matsuri
Congratulations O-Hina Matsuri
Yuka
Please sit down, please sit
SIT!
All right!
She sat!