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Flutter in the blue sky
During the Edo period, samurai had a custom of decorating armor helmets and warrior dolls in the hope of healthy growth of children, and setting up flag banners in the garden.
In houses of common people other than the samurai family, carp streamers can now be set up instead of flag banners. It is said that the powerful carp in the heavens of Hiroshige's work symbolizes the reconstruction at that time.
The main carp streamers in the Edo period were black carps. Nowadays, you can see colorful carp streamers mixed with black, red and blue.
The carp streamer fried in the precincts of Suitengu was swimming in the sky with energy.
◆Suitengu Shrine
2-4-1, Nihonbashikakigaracho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
◆"Sudobashi Surugadai" of Hiroshige Utagawa's "Hundred Famous Views of Edo"
From the Digital Collection of the National Diet Library