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Bashō, 17th-century Japanese poet, abandoning his "broken house on the 
River Sumida" to go on a long journey, wrote an eight-part linked verse 
and hung it on a post by the doorway. He quotes the first part:

Behind this door
Now buried in deep grass
A different generation will celebrate
The Festival of Dolls.

(Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa, in the Penguin Classics edition of "The 
Narrow Road to the Deep North")

Hina-matsuri! called in English "Doll Festival" or "Girls' Day",
3 March!
How did I miss that?
Answer: It's not on my original list.
Because (sez Wiki) it's an annual festival, but not a national holiday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri

But back to the poem.
Searching for the original text, I found this remarkable page which 
contrasts several very different translations of it (and the preceding 
introduction).


kusa no to mo
sumikawaru yo zo
hina no ie

草の戸も　住替る代ぞ　ひなの家


Even a thatched hut
May change with a new owner
Into a doll’s house.

(Translation by Donald Keene)

https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-oku.htm

Original:  grass - 's - door - even
            live-in/change - people - [emphatic]
	    doll - 's - house

I think the link to the Festival is justified by the fact that /hina/ 
refers specifically to very traditional figures, wearing traditional 
clothing, which are displayed on that day "to pray for the happiness of 
girls".

https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/learn/home/dictio/senshoku/hina/