There is a company in Wake Town, the neighbor of Bizen-shi, whose production volume of Koinobori (the carp-shaped streamer) is the number one in Japan.
It is Tokunaga Koinobori.
This company, established in 1947, was started by the picture of Koinobori drawn by a Japanese-style painter, Mr. Shunsui Tokunaga.

Dyeing process

Water-washing process

Cutting process

Sewing process

Carp for celebration “Kiccho”
The new Koinoboris were produced one after another by various designs and planning abiliy while keeping up a tradition.

Kumamon

Puca Shizu-chan yellow (with child’s name)

Maguronobori (tuna-shaped streamer)

Tokunaga Koinobori swims in the world.

Kyo Nishiki swimming in Antarctic in 1992

Dress of Kyo Nishiki in Kobe in 1997

Schonbrunn Palace (Vienna) in 1999

Kyo Nishiki swimming at the Great Wall of China in 2007

Fashion show I Dairen (China) in 2010