Happy Girls Day!!! March 3rd HinaMatsuri

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:10 pm

Happy Girls Day!!! It's March 3rd and is also known as HinaMatsuri and japanese doll festival!!

http://farstrider.net/Japan/Festivals/H ... /index.htm

Grico · Post by **Grico** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:19 pm

Happy Girls day to you! (although i don't and never did qualify for the holliday)

sugarcels · Post by **sugarcels** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:20 pm

Yay!

Too bad nobody around here would even know what it is.

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:23 pm

Never did quite get the reason there are "days" like this. If you're a man, and you're smart, you treat every day like it's girl's day. Kind of like Mother or Father's day. Or Black History month. Not like I am going to be neglectful and racist for the rest of the year. Oh well. Treat your ladies right, fellas.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:35 pm

blueheaven wrote:Never did quite get the reason there are "days" like this. If you're a man, and you're smart, you treat every day like it's girl's day. Kind of like Mother or Father's day. Or Black History month. Not like I am going to be neglectful and racist for the rest of the year. Oh well. Treat your ladies right, fellas.

Haha, so true!

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:06 pm

These holidays are so that you have more reason to give gifts!!!

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:36 pm

RoboFlonne wrote:These holidays are so that you have more reason to give gifts!!!

I bring my wife gifts just because I think of her. More holidays are just so hallmark can sell more paper.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:48 pm

Is there a boy's day?

Oh well... I thought this was funny

sugarcels · Post by **sugarcels** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:37 pm

I think there is indeed a boy's day, I just can't remember the name.

The only way I know is from an episode of Akazukin Cha Cha

Pathedic!

miz ducky · Post by **miz ducky** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:51 pm

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they have both. I couldn't tell you when though.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:58 pm

When I was a kid I used to get a little money on Boy's Day. My sister would get some money on Girl's Day.

I used to see a number of koi banners flying on poles in Gardena, California (where I used to live) back in the 1970s. Gardena had the largest concentration on Americans of Japanese decent outside of Hawaii. Celebrating Girl's Day and Boy's Day at the time was more likely to be celebrated by those who came from Hawaii. They were the ones more likely to be closer generationwise to their original Japanese immigrant relatives so they were more likely to celebrate it or at least make some note of it to those of us who came after them.

My aunt mentions these days much more often than my mom (her sister). My aunt married a guy that was born in Japan. He moved to Hawaii as a teenager and served in the US navy. My aunt was always closer to Japanese traditions than the rest of us. She had a traditional Japanese wedding which was only the second one I know of that any of my relatives had (out of about 200 of my relatives under the age of 75 I mean).