There were five old Japanese (the Heian era) festivals (the seventh day of January, the Dolls' Festival, Iris Festival, the Star Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival), and it was an event; a turning point of each season. It is said the Girl's Festival to the Doll's Festival later a festival of one third day of the third lunar month of the inside.
Originally the paper doll which modelled idle "hiina play" and a Chinese person in a dress-up doll of paper of the Imperial Court of the Heian era, and "floating paper doll celebration" was let to undertake an accident, and to drain into a river.
It was the Muromachi era, and this festival was firmly established on March 3 and, no longer a doll of paper, but a decorated a luxurious doll and and it was celebrated it grandly in the Imperial Court as they all came to do it. It was it in the present form the event spread through samurai family society and and it spread through home of a rich merchant's family and village headman.

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by Takagi-Miyuki