In this event, children wearing light yukata kimono entrust their wishes to dolls made of wrinkled Japanese paper, and float them downstream. About 100 children gathered this year beside the ...

Murakami City in Niigata Prefecture, along the Sea of Japan, was once a castle town. Currently, it is showcasing "hina" dolls in traditional townhouses known as "machiya" to celebrate the festival.

“As the awareness of gender equality and diversity has heightened, I want customers to have dolls that they think they would like.” According to Kumiko Mase, 73, a researcher of Japanese ...