3rd March is a day call Hinamatsuri (雛祭り), Doll Festival or Girl's day. See wiki for more infor.
As a celebration, Japanese have the costume of displaying dolls which they 'believe' it will capture the bad spirits within, then as they send the dolls into sea on a boat, it will take all the bad fortunes/spirits away.
I learned about this during a cultural program where they displayed some of these dolls:
During the day, they also teach participants how to make paper craft.My wife is quite actively learning:
All the black & white photos at the beginning of this post are dance performance as part of the event during the day.
