About 250 carp-shaped streamers, known as koinobori, are being flown at a beach in the central Japanese prefecture of Mie for ...

The banners are made of cloth 7.5 meters long and 85 centimeters wide, and popular designs include a samurai with a Japanese sword, a dragon, a tiger and a carp swimming up a waterfall.

The 1,151 carp streamers -- the figure being a play on the Japanese phrase "ii koi" meaning good carp -- are hung along an approximately 600-meter stretch between the Tokiwa and Uzumagawa bridges ...

It's the height of spring, fields glistening with snow melt from the mountains and nature returning to life as we ride through the Nasu Highlands under hundreds of streaming carp banners ...

An old Japanese proverb goes ... of Edo), “There is no place in the city where you cannot see large banners, large carp streamers and flags.” Putting up carp banners was a response by ...