the Star Festival | Exoteric Japan https://exotericjapan.com Deep Cuts of Japan for the Idly Curious Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:38:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://exotericjapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-512px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog-1-32x32.jpg the Star Festival | Exoteric Japan https://exotericjapan.com 32 32 Tanabata (the Evening of the Seventh) 七夕 or the Star Festival 星祭り https://exotericjapan.com/events/tanabata%e3%80%80the-evening-of-the-seventh-%e4%b8%83%e5%a4%95%e3%80%80%e3%81%9f%e3%81%aa%e3%81%b0%e3%81%9f-or-the-star-festival-%e6%98%9f%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a-%e3%81%bb%e3%81%97%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4/ https://exotericjapan.com/events/tanabata%e3%80%80the-evening-of-the-seventh-%e4%b8%83%e5%a4%95%e3%80%80%e3%81%9f%e3%81%aa%e3%81%b0%e3%81%9f-or-the-star-festival-%e6%98%9f%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a-%e3%81%bb%e3%81%97%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2019 05:57:53 +0000 https://whatilikeaboutjapan.com/?post_type=mec-events&p=9800 What (Usually) People Do Tanzaku hanging on bamboo n present-day Japan, people generally celebrate Tanabata by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (短冊 tanzaku), small pieces ...]]> https://exotericjapan.com/events/tanabata%e3%80%80the-evening-of-the-seventh-%e4%b8%83%e5%a4%95%e3%80%80%e3%81%9f%e3%81%aa%e3%81%b0%e3%81%9f-or-the-star-festival-%e6%98%9f%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a-%e3%81%bb%e3%81%97%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4/feed/ 0