Children’s Day
Children’s Day (Kodoma no Hi) is a public holiday on 5th May and it celebrates happy and healthy children and expresses gratitude to their mothers. Up until 1948, Girls’ Day was two months earlier (but not a public holiday) than Boys’ Day, when Boys’ Day was changed to become Children’s Day. However, all the decorations – carp streamers with Samurai motifs relate to boys not girls! The display at Tokyo Tower is particularly impressive … 333 carp kites, to denote…