Hina doll display stand, hina matsuri display stand, vintage japanese 2024 lacquer display stand, black and gold lacquer stand

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hina doll display stand, hina matsuri display stand, vintage japanese lacquer display stand, black and gold lacquer stand

(listing for display stand only)

This small lacquer tray is one piece of a set of doll's furniture used for display at the Hina Matsuri, a festival where parents pray for their daughters' happy lives. The tray, called Takatsuki, was originally used to display seasonal sweets.

The tray is made of wood and is coated in a black lacquer with intricate gold floral and scroll accents. The top of the round tray has a pretty gold lacquered flower which also appears at the base of the pedestal stand.

The wooden stand and it's lacquer coating is in very good vintage condition and it makes a nice display stand for a special ornament or vase of flowers.

- measures around 10.5 cm (4.1”) tall x 11.5 cm ( 4.5”) in diameter
- weighs 50 gm.

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HINA MATSURI - THE DOLL FESTIVAL
In Japan, the Hina Matsuri, or doll festival, is held on March 3rd to celebrate and pray for the health, happiness and good marriage of one's daughters. Another name for the Hina Matsuri is momo-no-sekku, or peach festival. Peach blossoms symbolize a happy marriage.

On this day every year, families set up a special red, tiered altar where they display the Emperor and Empress (hina) dolls, their courtiers and their bridal furniture. They decorate the altar with boughs of peach blossoms and make offerings to the hina dolls of freshly made rice cakes cut into festive diamond shapes.

The modern Hina Matsuri goes back to the beginning of the Edo period (1603-1868). The tradition comes from a combination of traditional doll play and the much older practice of nagashi-bina, which involves transferring one's bad luck to a paper doll and allowing it to be washed away in a river. Just as impurities and illnesses could be transferred 2024 to dolls to keep children healthy, dolls were also viewed as receptacles of parent's prayers and hopes for their daughter's future prosperity.

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