"They’re all my designs, and now we have seventeen different ones in total. In my father’s day, there were three designs, and in my grandfather’s time, only two. The customers sometimes call me “professor” but really, I think of the customers as my teachers. By that, I mean most of the designs were developed from the requests of people (little boy, big brother and dad, grandma and grandpa) who came into the shop. From listening to their vague words, inside my brain, born from those words, a color image will float up and I’ll just transpose that image onto the koi nobori (laughs)."

wow!

May 5th in Hawaii is celebrated for "boy's day" with the beautiful carp design flags.

When I was in Japan as a boy in the 50's I loved this day--color and joy, wind and fish flying!

Your clips are amusing as always! Thanks

May is such a great month

I agree, Haraya. So many things to celebrate!