Event Special Offers

Hina-matsuri (Girls’ doll festival) Through Tea Ceremony Culture and Hanging Art

Period: February 1 (Friday) to March 28 (Thursday), 2019
Location: Main Lobby and Art Lobby, 3rd Floor, and others
Admission: Complimentary
Cooperation: Mitsuyo Matsuo and her Himawari Group of artists, Honorary Professor Hiroichi Tsutsui of Kyoto University, Organization of Cultural Inheritance, Kyoto City, Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts Fureaikan, Mataro Dolls, Aonuma Seihoudou Co., Ltd.

Every year, through February and March, the Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo celebrates the Hina-matsuri festival, a time when families pray for the health and growth of their daughters. The main lobby, and other locations around the hotel, showcases thousands of handmade hanging silk dolls which are said to trap evil spirits and bring girls good luck. The exhibition this year also displays various traditional and historical art items used in traditional Japanese tea ceremony, which has long been a part of the cultural upbringing of Japanese women from the Meiji Period (1868 to 1912).

Exhibition

Hanging Dolls

The main lobby, and other locations around the hotel, will showcase about 6,800 handmade hanging silk dolls which symbolically reflect the hopes for health and happiness of children. For example, the decorations created for this exhibition have various symbolic meaning such as monkeys with ability to ward off calamities, mandarin ducks reflecting love between spouses, and pillows representing children who sleep well and grow healthily.

Tea Ceremony Culture

The “Tea Ceremony Culture Exhibition” will be held in cooperation with Honorary Professor Hiroichi Tsutsui of Kyoto University and display tea cups, bamboo teaspoons, water vessels and other precious and beautiful instruments used in traditional tea ceremony. In addition, other tea ceremony items including parlor ornaments, incenses and picture scrolls of Japanese confectionaries will also be displayed to demonstrate the cultural and aesthetic beauty reflected in Japanese tea ceremony. Also about 10 tea ceremony instruments such as Korai and Kinrande from Edo Period to the present day.

Tea Ceremony Experience

Guests will also have a chance to experience tea ceremony experience.
Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays (except for days upon which the room has been reserved in advance)
Time: 11:00a.m./2:00p.m./3:00p.m./4:00p.m.
(about 30 minutes each session)
Venue: Tea Room “Sho-fu-an”, Main Tower 10th Floor
Fee: 2,000 yen (fee for Japanese green tea and sweets, tax and service sharge)
*Approximately four people can attend each workshop

Special Hina-matsuri Menus

The hotel’s restaurants are doing something special for the Hina-matsuri festival, with menus offering colorful and exquisite dishes that highlight this time of year through fresh, seasonal ingredients.