#tanzaku: Japanese people wish in Twitter (2009-07-07)
Today is 7th July, Tanabata (Star Festival).
Japanese people wishes.
Japanese people post messages with #tanzaku in Twitter.
Japanese write their wishes at tanzaku in today.
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.
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. The bamboo and decorations are often set afloat on a river or burned after the festival, around midnight or on the next day. This resembles the custom of floating paper ships and candles on rivers during Obon. Many areas in Japan have their own Tanabata customs, which are mostly related to local Obon traditions.
Tanabata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timelog, Japanese microblog too.
I wished.
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