Tanabata festival

Tanabata, (meaning "Evening of the seventh"), is a Japanese star festival.

Yamaga lantern dancers at the Tanabata festivities at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. Aren't their costumes amazing? Tanabata is known as the 'Star Festival,' and celebrates the one day each year (July 7) legendary star-crossed lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi can cross the Milky Way to meet. Thanks so much to @yasu3835 for the magical shot! Follow @visitjapanjp for your daily dose of Japan travel inspiration. Tag your own photos of Japan with #visitjapanjp to give us permission to repost! #japan…

Around July 7 or August 7, depending on the region, the Japanese celebrate the star festival, during the Tanabata matsuri, born from the fusion of Japanese and Chinese legends.

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I had the pleasure to create this year’s visuals for a Japanese festival TANABATA in Prague! 🎋 Tanabata celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (短冊, tanzaku), small pieces of…

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Tanabata

FESTIVAL DE TANABATA

Everywhere you look, Asagaya is adorned with elaborate paper-mâché decor lovingly crafted by hand for the Tanabata Festival, creating a nostalgic celebration. Source: IG @profoundly_happy