Children's day

Yesterday was Children's Day (Kodomo no hi) in Japan. Basically, families with boys will display carp streamers outside their homes. (Girls have a separate festival called Dolls Festival in March)

These are some of the carp streamers that I saw in my area. Small carp streamers hanging from an apartment...

...and big ones outside a house.

The big black carp represents the father, the medium-sized pink one represents the mother and the little blue one represents the son.