Two Japanese Girls’ Day displays for March 3, 2016 (Girls Day in our Japanese culture) are presently on display in Tucson.  This is a special day when girls are honored & celebrated in our Japanese culture and wished good health & happiness. These beautiful, tiered doll displays are very elaborate and very beautiful.

One is at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive (between Columbus and Swan Rd.), which ends on March 3rd.  The other display is at Yume Japanese Gardens, 2130 N. Alvernon Way (south of Grant Rd.), and goes till March 20, 2016. Don’t miss seeing these wonderful doll displays.

More info on our “Upcoming Events” page.

Info on the Yume gardens display:

“On exhibit now is our vintage set of ornamental Hina dolls, marking Girls’ Day on March 3, when parents wish their daughters health and happiness. A multi-tiered platform covered with red fabric displays dolls representing the emperor and empress and their court attendants and musicians in the traditional dress of the Heian period (794-1185 A.D.). For 800 years such doll sets have been handed down from mother to daughter, and in many regions of Japan there is a superstition that they must come down soon after Girls’ Day and be put away for another year, lest the girls in the household remain single for the rest of their lives.”