For the Girls’ Festival, families display hina dolls on tiers. A page of the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta lists them from the top: the imperial couple, the three court ladies who serve at the palace, the five musicians, the two guards known as the Ministers of the Right and the Left, and the servants.
The Minister of the Left is an older man and sits on the viewer’s right. The Minister of the Right is a young man and sits on the viewer’s left.