Originally, the Hina-matsuri Festival was run for both boys and girls along with Tango no Sekku (the festival on May 5 of the lunar calendar), but from around the Edo Period, gorgeous hina dolls were regarded as belonging to girls while Tango no Sekku became recognized as the Boys Festival because of its alias name, Shobu no Sekku (literally, the Iris Festival), of which the word 'Shobu' is pronounced in the same way it is for the different Shobu, meaning victory or defeat.
元々は、5月5日の端午の節句とともに男女の別なく行われていたが、江戸時代ごろから、豪華な雛人形は女の子に属するものとされ、端午の節句（菖蒲の節句）は「尚武」にかけて男の子の節句とされるようになった。