Flying the Carp, the Fish of Good Omen, on the Boys' Festival in Early May

Scene in May: The Boys' Festival (Gogatsu no kei)

Flying the Carp In Yokohama

Boys' festival in the fifth month

Masagoji of the Tsuruya (Representing the Boys' Festival in the Fifth Month)

21.The Fancy Carps made of Paper, Silk or Cotton. They are hung up on the poles in celebration of Boy's Festival Day in Early May. (The carp is an emblem of indomitable courage and perseverance always pushing to the front)

Demonstration on the first of may in Berlin Paris and Tokyo

Goose flying in front of the moon

Display of Dolls and Toys on the Girls' Festival in March

The Month of May (Shōbu), series Comparison of New Beauties in Ukiyo-e

Dawn moon of the Shinto rites: Festival on the hill, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

View of Mount Fuji from Hakone mountains, sketched at 3 a.m. in early January

The Chrysanthemum Festival in the Ninth Month, from an untitled pentaptych of the five festivals

The Nippon flying above the famous Fujiyama, in Japan. (Evening Post, 22 September 1939)

Leading' Aircraftman Morris Dcs mondJutsens, who<was killed on Tuesday in a flying accident at the R.N.Z.A.F...

LEFT: Members of the "Flying Tigers," on active service in Alaska, boisterously welcome one of their group w...

May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)"

Woman in Heian Period costume, Festival of the Ages, Kyoto, Japan. Taken for a series on Japan for ‘Life’

Cover of a fire programme by 28 NZ Battalion on 7 May 1945 to 23 NZ Battalion in the Faenza Sector, World Wa...

One of the greatest disasters in British military history was the fall of Singapore on February 16 1942, whe...

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Issun Tokubei in Act Eight of the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (Mirror of Osaka in the Summer Festival), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Seventeenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1779

[Hotei, the god of good fortune, one of the seven lucky gods, facing right, standing on a rolling barrel, holding a mallet in his right hand and carrying his large bottomless bag of goods]

[Hotei, the god of good fortune, one of the seven lucky gods, facing front with his head resting on his hands, peering out through an opening in his bottomless bag of goods]

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Danshichi Kurobei in Act Eight of the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (Mirror of Osaka in the Summer Festival), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Seventeenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1779

Illustrations of famous spots in Kumamoto (travel guide circulated during The Great Shinkyō Kumamoto exposition (March 25th to May 13th, 1935)