Hina Matsuri aka Girl's day aka the Japanese Doll Festival is celebrated every year on March 3rd. Usually, this entails displaying dolls representing royalty on pedestals in your home. According to one of my friends, if you don't remove the dolls by a certain point your daughter will not get married. Thank god there's no such rule about Christmas trees!
I decided to make Hina dolls in my ceramics class. However, my dolls are a bit different. They are beetles. I was inspired by a book of Japanese ceramics that my teacher showed me, in particular a sculpture of a beetle resting on a mushroom.
The other women in my class told me they are 'so original,' which at first worried me because originality isn't exactly a value in Japanese society. I felt better when they took pictures of my dolls on their cellphones. They wouldn't take pictures of them if they were really odd, right?
Also, here are a couple of cups I made in class.
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