{"id":78,"date":"2009-05-08T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=78"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:30:24","slug":"kodomo-no-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/kodomo-no-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodomo no Hi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 5th is Kodomo no Hi (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u65e5<\/strong><\/span>). Kodomo no Hi (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u65e5<\/strong><\/span>) is Children&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s part of the Golden Week (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u30b4\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30f3\u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30af<\/strong><\/span>) holidays, which includes midori no hi (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u307f\u3069\u308a\u306e\u65e5<\/strong><\/span>) or Greenary Day, Kenpoo Kinenbi (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u61b2\u6cd5\u8a18\u5ff5\u65e5<\/strong><\/span>) or Consitution Day, and Shoowa no hi\u00a0(<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u662d\u548c\u306e\u65e5<\/strong><\/span>) or Shoowa Day.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, Kodomo no Hi (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u65e5<\/strong><\/span>) was called Tango no Sekku (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u7aef\u5348\u306e\u7bc0\u53e5<\/strong><\/span>). Tango no Sekku (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u7aef\u5348\u306e\u7bc0\u53e5<\/strong><\/span>) was known as Boy&#8217;s Day, but the government changed it to Children&#8217;s Day. On Children&#8217;s Day, parents buy their children gifts and spend quality time in a restaurant or at an amusement park. Sometimes parents just spend quality time at home with their children. The whole emphasis on this day is for parents to appreciate their children and for children to be praised and loved by their parents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/image.www.rakuten.co.jp\/seigetsu\/img10162578775.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>You&#8217;ll see a lot of homes that have fish streamers called Koinobori (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u9bc9\u5e5f<\/strong><\/span>). The koinobori (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u9bc9\u5e5f<\/strong><\/span>) fly in the wind and are held high by poles. The black colored streamers symbolize fathers, the red streamers symbolize the eldest son. If a family has more than one son, other than the eldest, the other sons are represented by either blue, green or purple streamers. The streamers also vary in size. The bigger the streamer, the older the person.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why the streamers are called koinobori (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u9bc9\u5e5f<\/strong><\/span>) is because koi (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u9bc9<\/strong><\/span>) is a type of fish called a carp. Carps are thought to be one of the bigger fishes in Japan, and it symbolizes the parent&#8217;s wish to have strong and healthy children. On picnics and other outdoor activities, you may see people eat chimki (<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode\"><strong>\u3061\u307e\u304d<\/strong><\/span>) which is a type of glutinous rice wrapped in a bamboo leaf. The bamboo leaf is just a covering. I just eat the rice, which is mixed with salt or vinegar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5th is Kodomo no Hi (\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u65e5). Kodomo no Hi (\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u65e5) is Children&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s part of the Golden Week (\u30b4\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30f3\u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30af) holidays, which includes midori no hi (\u307f\u3069\u308a\u306e\u65e5) or Greenary Day, Kenpoo Kinenbi (\u61b2\u6cd5\u8a18\u5ff5\u65e5) or Consitution Day, and Shoowa no hi\u00a0(\u662d\u548c\u306e\u65e5) or Shoowa Day. Originally, Kodomo no Hi (\u3053\u3069\u3082\u306e\u65e5) was called Tango no Sekku (\u7aef\u5348\u306e\u7bc0\u53e5)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/kodomo-no-hi\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2783],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kodomo-no-hi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}