七夕 tanabata festival

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more beautiful at night...
Japanese star festival
***story:
It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). The Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, 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. Since the stars come out at night, the celebration is held at night.
***Customs：
In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku , small pieces of paper, and hanging them on bamboo, sometimes with other decorations. People dressed in yukata
....etc
detail--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata

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Tags:

• tanabata
• art
• culture
• traditional
• matsuri
• 祭り
• たなばた
• しちせき
• 五節句
• 棚機
• 天の川
• 織姫
• 彦星
• 牽牛
• 短冊
• 大伴家持
• 万葉集
• 高岡

[volwarbas]

My country has this festival in the Japanese village ^^ 

[emilyvuong]

This is nothing like in the anime -_- hahaha

[warffxfreak]

hahaah if i ever would have the honor to witness something this beautifull..

I would probably read all the wishes .. :P

[InsatiableBlonde]

I can see it now, must be mesmerizing at night.