Wednesday 21 April 2010

Words on Wednesday: KOI NOBORI


#1 here. This time of year in Japan, and through early May, you will see everywhere carp streamers ("Koi Nobori") flying from roofs and poles. They are a celebration of the boys in the house, so that they may grow up big and strong. We happen to have a small set (they can be enormous!) that I bought in Tokyo a couple of years ago and it went up today in celebration of the three Poupounette boys, Tommy, Yuusuke (Yuu-Chan) and Ebisu (Bibi-Chan).



Yuu-Chan climbing up to investigate:



REALLY BIG Koi Nobori in Japan!



31 comments:

  1. Wow! We would love to have some of those in our garden!

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  2. I've seen carp streamers but I never knew that they had that meaning. Very interesting...So which fish would be for girls?

    wags, Lola

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  3. To answer Lola's question, there is a whole different festival for girls, with very elaborate doll displays. That's in March.

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  4. that's purrty kool! we needs 4 of them flying on our house!

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  5. Your carp streamers are lovely. What a great thing for you kitties to be able to look at from your run :)

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  6. Those streamers are such lovely colours

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  7. Moi dis "Poï", Toi dis "Koï" kitty dis "Toy", il est Roi celà va se soi ma foi!

    ViVi Shar-PoÏ

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  8. We learn such neat things from your #1! Mommy loves your display, such pretty designs. Grow strong, boys!
    xx Lounge Kats

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  9. Those are gorgeous, and what great colors!
    --JB

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  10. Did you catch anything Yuu-Chan? They look like fun!

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  11. Furry khool!

    Thanks fur sharing!

    Hugz&Khysses,
    Khyra
    PeeEssWoo: Hi Tommy! I'm glad to see a furiend will rekhord it fur woo - I would ofFUR but we are still in the pseudo stone ages here - no DVR thingie!

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  12. Those are so beautiful. We love the ones you have for the boys. And those big ones are really gorgeous.

    Woos - Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara

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  13. Lovely Koi! I'm sure Yuu-chan loved investigating them :)

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  14. I love these fishie streamers Koi Nobori!! They are just beautiful against the blue sky and in your yard!!

    bonkiebonk enjoy them

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  15. Oooh - we saw some of these at our nature reserve today! There always seems to be humans there flying kites at the first part of the nature reserve as it's a bit of a wind-trap at places - and when we turned up today one of them had a string of these! Wow - now we know what it was all about - cool! Schnauzer snuggles - JD and Max.

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  16. Learn something new everyday. :)

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  17. Do the boys get real fishies to nom on as well?

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  18. Murray really loved those 'flying fish' as he called them!

    take care
    Clive and the NSLM

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  19. We have a windsock, but not so fancy. It has a birdie on it, not a fish.

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  20. Beautiful!!
    Let's see if mom will hang any at our house this year. (if only she remembered where she placed them..)

    Cheers,
    Maxx

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  21. Those are brilliant!! They look like fishies!!!

    Hooray for the boys, but an even BIGGER HOORAY for the BOOTIFUL girls!!

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  22. WOW! We'd love some of those giant flying fishies for our garden.

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  23. Wow those are very cool! And we think they would be fun to play with too - we bet that is why Yuu-Chan climbed up to check them out! They are very pretty though, so we would play gently!!

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  24. かわいい鯉のぼりですね。
    吹流し、パパ鯉、ママ鯉、子鯉かしら。
    うちもそろそろ飾らなくては。
    日本の友達 マチルダ

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  25. Fishies! We like that they are part of a celebration...how fun and very pretty! We might have to get one for our garden...

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