KOINOBORI - 鯉のぼり

A great scenery of Milky Way galaxy over the traditional landscape in Japan. Japanese celebrate May 5 as “Children’s day”, which is one of the national holidays. The another name of “Children’s day” is “Boy’s festival”. We hang up the carp streamers called “Koinobori” on that day. Streamers have five colors, which are black, red, white, yellow, and blue or green. The origin of “Koinobori” is a historical event in ancient China. It’s said that a carp was the only one which won a race among other fishes, and became a dragon. That’s why a carp was chosen to be a symbol of Boy’s festival. Today, the purposes of “Koinobori” is for wishing success of the boy in family and protecting him from misfortune and evils.

In the darkness and silence, “Koinobori” was being blown by a gentle breeze, and it seemed to be swimming comfortably in the Milky Way galaxy.