In Japan families celebrate Tango no Sekku.
Large carp kites, called koinobori, are displayed outside houses. On the link below you will be able to listen to a traditional song for Tango no Sekku called the Koinoburi Song.
We will be designing our own carp kites so do some research and find out more about them.
Try to find answers to questions like:
What is a carp?
When does this celebration take place?
What houses display carp kites?
What does the carp symbolise?
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Its thought that kites were first introduced into Japan by Buddhist Missionaries who travelled from China in the Nara Period.A Japanese dictionary dated 981 AD was the first to record the Japanese word for kite and used the characters for Kami Tobi meaning paper hawk which suggests that the first kites were bird shaped.A Japanese thief used a man-carring kite to steal the gold scales from an ornamental dolphin on the roof of the castle of Nagoya and was only caught because he bragged of his daring deed.He and his family were boiled in oil.
ReplyDeletea carp is a large windpocket.
ReplyDeleteIt takes place on may 5th.
only houses of famlies with boys.