Gigantic fish flags take to the sky at Nishiarai Daishi temple On a fine spring day, how can you not be cheered by spotting koi nobori swimming through the sky? It’s Children’s Day again, here in Japan, and fathers & sons everywhere are celebrating by having iris fights in the bath. Carp flags school over the shopping street inContinueContinue reading “Fish Flag Day!”
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Swimming In The Sky
I love these. Every year on May 5, families fly koi nobori outside their houses as a sort of prayer that their sons will become like the carp that climbed the waterfall to become a dragon. These fish flags always cheer me up, but this year for some reason the public displays are particularly exuberant!ContinueContinue reading “Swimming In The Sky”
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