May 5 is a national holiday called kodomo no hi (こどもの日), Children's Day.
Those families with boys decorate helmet and carp streamers wishing their healthy growth.
Today is rikka (立夏), one of nijushisekki (二十四節気), 24 solar terms. The last one was kokuu (穀雨) on April 20, and the next one is shoman (小満) on May 21.
Rikka literally means stand summer, it is the beginning of summer.
I attended the morning prayer ceremony at Kinkazan koganeyama jinja shrine and had breakfast and visited their shrines again.
We checked out and took a ferry to Onagawa at 11:50.
I took tains from Onagawa to Honshiogama and visited Shiogama jinja shrine and others.
I came back by 18:55 Shinkansen from Sendai and arrived at home just before midnight.
It was a nice trip to Tohoku.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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