Sunday May 27, 2012

Plenty to carp about

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Plenty to carp about

Nearly 1,200 “koinobori” (carp) streamers are displayed over the Sagami River in Kanagawa Prefecture to celebrate Children’s Day on Wednesday.

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    Gurukun

    Looks like good fishing

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    tigerguy

    Does anyone know which is the closest train station to this site? Sagami or Odakyu line? Good photo.

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    some14some

    Mass production of 'koinobori' despite declining birth rate, picture far from reality.

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    Speed

    This is one of the things I like about Japan.

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    LaiLaiYuu

    happY children dAy.. :)

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    marcels

    Lovely photo, I can tell you those carp streamers aren,t cheap, my parents inlaw bought 3 med sized ones for 15000 yen, so i guess in this photo you must have atleast 2,000000 yen worth of carp, I swear i,m in the wrong business.....

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    jj1980

    On children's day, I would hope that laws and public awareness and counsel, hotlines, homes etc to help these children. That it would be in the planning from this society and government. To make these in effect as soon as possible to stop the violence that we read everyday on the news. Not just streamers and hotdogs at the beach.

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    Makun

    This picture has that nice "summer haze" look to it. Granted most people are in long sleeve clothing...

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    fukuyama

    feel that the ppl there are very happy. nice photo

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    3RENSHO

    to tigerguy: The mouth of the Sagami River lies between Chigasaki and Hiratsuka stations on the JR Tokaido Line. However, the photo may have been taken at a location somewhere upstream...

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    stevecpfc

    This picture is great. While out in very remote Kyoto Prefecture i saw about 100 of these over a field, make great photos to show people back home.

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    TrentonGaijin

    Beautiful. The carp streamers over Sagami River is one of my favorite memories from Japan (& one of the very few events I got to share with my son).

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    Norcalmike

    Nice pic

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    usaexpat

    Great pic, we put our koinobori out on Sunday in anticipation. By the way isn't it "boy's day" as opposed to "children's day"?

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