Japan is covered in colorful carp kites this week. Here’s what you need to know about koinobori, a Japanese tradition that’s centuries old. A koinobori is a large funnel kite or wind sock shaped like ...

Use the cardboard inside of a roll of paper towels as your basic shape. Then cut semicircles of tissue paper in three bright colours. Now glue these down along the cardboard roll, like scales. You don ...

The sixth-grade art students at Robert E. Ellis Middle School in Hendersonville recently celebrated the Japanese holiday “Children’s Day” on May 5. The young artists made carp kites known as ...

Kites have rich traditions around the world, and the countries of Asia are no exception. Used in playful kite fighting games in South Asia, shapes and sizes for this use often result in small, flat, ...

KAPAI‘A — In the shadow of the Kapa‘ia swinging bridge, a flock of koinobori quietly flutters in the breeze. The koinobori, translated to mean carp streamers, are joined by other displays outside ...

Golden Week traditionally means two things in Japan – fun-filled activities and big crowds everywhere. The week is so-named because of several national holidays over a seven-day period, though there ...

An old Japanese proverb goes, “Edokko (people from Edo) are like carp streamers fluttering in the May wind.” This means they may be blunt in their speech, but they are basically frank, open-hearted ...

There was Japanese food, Japanese games, Japanese clothes, Japanese kites and even Japanese combat. Koinobori kites flying over the lake in the Japanese section of Botanic Garden set the scene for ...

Samurai armor and swords, warrior dolls and kites will dot gymnasium walls of the Wapato Buddhist Church at the 55th annual Sukiyaki Dinner this Sunday. The decor symbolizes Boys Day, or Tango no ...