Japanese Girls life Milestones?

[Spokavriel]

There are allot of fics I have seen where Ranma becomes a little girl again and a WIP jasonjkay's Growing up the right way also does so. I'd like to suggest including some of the events in a Japanese girls life but I can't remember the names ages or holidays (for lack of a more fitting term) they center around.

What is a good resource for detailed information on the milestones in a Japanese girls young life?

[iiradned]

Hinamatsuri on March 3

From Wikipedia

This traditional Girls' Festival is not a national holiday. Another name for it is Momo no sekku (the Peach Festival). Girls display a set of dolls dressed in pretty costumes of courtiers of the Heian period. Many families pass these dolls from generation to generation. Other customs include displaying peach blossoms; eating red, white and green diamond-shaped mochi; and drinking shirozake, a white beverage. According to an old wives' tale, a girl who leaves her dolls on display after this holiday will be late to marry.

Shichi-Go-San on November 15

From Wikipedia

On this Shinto holiday, families celebrate a child’s accomplishment of achieving the ages of 3, 5, or 7. By custom, parents bring their children to the tutelary shrine: boys at ages 3 and 5, girls at 3 and 7. Although previously ages were reckoned by the kazoedoshi system, according to which a child was born with age one and turned two on New Year's Day, parents nowadays bring their children to shrines according to age based on birthdays. The traditional date was the fifteenth day according to the lunar calendar, that is, the full moon. November is the month when people visit the shrine to give thanks for the harvest, and parents pray in addition for their children. Children receive chitose-ame, a sweet whose name means "thousand-year (i.e. long-life) candy." It has auspicious red and white stripes, and comes in bags bearing motifs of cranes and turtles, which are also symbols of long life, as well as pines, bamboo and ume. November 15 is not a national holiday.

There is also Kodomo no hi or Children's Day although only boys actually celebrate this.

[lwf58]

I was just introduced by my Japanese friend to seijin no hi. Her daughter just turned twenty. Being in Canada rather than Japan, they simply took her out to a nice Japanese restaurant for some fancy food.

Coming of Age (seijin no hi)

The Coming of Age festival is celebrated on the second Monday of January. It used to be celebrated on January 15, until the year 1999. Its Japanese name is seijin no hi. All young people who have or will turn twenty years old in that year are celebrated on that day.

Twenty is the age considered as the beginning of adulthood. It is also the minimum legal age for voting, drinking, and smoking.

Celebrations are held nationwide in every town, with most of the people turning twenty participating in formal dress. Seijin no hi is a national holiday.

More specifically for girls, when a girl has her first period, the family has a special meal of red beans and rice (osekihan).

[jasonjkay]

Wow, thanks, I never thought about this. This info could be really usefull, it doesnt just apply to ranma becoming a little girl, It could apply to Ranma's daughter, or a young freind. Unfortunately there isn's anything here I can use as I changed Ranmas age in my story from six, to eight, damn. Still thanks anyway.

[Spokavriel]

Sorry about that. And it could still be useful if you want to add in awkward moments with class mates. Allot of these would have happened recently for some of them and Ranko will have to have some reason for it never having happened to her.