Families pray for their daughters' happiness, prosperity, health and being beautiful forever.
The first "Girls' Day" for a girl is called her hatzu-zekku.
On the day, it is popular for the girl's granparents to buy her dolls.
The dolls in the picture were bought by my parents to celebrate Rina's hatzu-zekku.
Most families take out dolls around mid-February and put them into place immediately after Hina Matsuri is over.
There is a superstition that families slow to put the dolls away will have trouble of their daughters marrying.
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