Children's Day!!

In Japan, May 5th is the Children's day.
It's a national holiday for celebration of boy's growing up.
This celebration stareted in the Edo era.
In the Edo era, samurai decorated a room with a doll of Kintaro, an armor, a Japanese drum and so on, because he hoped that his son grow strong and powerful.
In the other side, the common people raised "Koinobori" on a roof of their house.
"Koinobori" is a family of carps that are made from fabric.
You can get more information of "Koinobori"in this website.
http://www.shikoku.ne.jp/miike/index-e.html
And we eat "Kashiwa-mochi" on this day.