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Mochigase Nagashi-bina (Floating Doll Rite)
もちがせ流しびな行事もちがせながしびなぎょうじ
D A T E2026-04-19
A doll-floating rite transmitted in Mochigase-chō, Tottori City, Tottori, on the 3rd day of the third lunar month. Tottori Prefectural Designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Paper dolls, peach blossoms, and rapeseed flowers are placed on a small straw raft (sandawara) and set adrift on the Sendai River, sending the year's defilement and misfortune away with the doll. A nationally rare survival of the archaic 'float' form of the Jōshi Sekku rite, before it shifted nationally to the 'display' form of Hinamatsuri.
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- 01Tottori Prefectural Designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property
- 02Archaic 'floating' form of the seasonal Jōshi (Doll) rite
- 03Performed on the original third day of the third lunar month
- 04Traditional design of paper dolls, peach blossoms, and rapeseed flowers on a straw raft
- 05Leading spring folk rite of the Sendai River basin
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