Kona Coffee Living History Farm celebrates Boy’s Day on Thursday. ADVERTISING Kona Coffee Living History Farm celebrates Boy’s Day on Thursday. Tango no Sekku or Boy’s Day is an honored holiday in Japan and Hawaii. Each May 5, families raise
Kona Coffee Living History Farm celebrates Boy’s Day on Thursday.
Tango no Sekku or Boy’s Day is an honored holiday in Japan and Hawaii. Each May 5, families raise the carp-shaped koinobori flags. These fish-shaped wind socks resemble carp because of the legend of a carp swimming upstream becomes a dragon, a symbol of a strong and healthy boy.
Visit the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, an outdoor museum in Captain Cook, and learn about this tradition and the Japanese coffee pioneers’ story during the 1920s-40s in Hawaii. On this day, the farm will display samurai dolls, samurai helmets and cloth carp wind socks will be hung up. Visitors can make their own origami samurai helmet and mini koi nobori (carp display). They can also walk through the coffee and macadamia nut orchards learning the methods used for farming back then, tour the historic farmhouse and visit with the farm animals.
The farm is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Boy’s Day celebration is free with paid admission.
Info: 323-3222, www.konahistorical.org.
