July 5, 2023 - Tanabata!

                       Today I am going to introduce about Tanabata (七夕)

I know people have heard or tried to do some Tanzaku(it's a tanabata thing). However we don't know why it is called Tanabata and Tanabata's history.

So I am going to talk about Tanabata history. Beginning in ancient China, Tanabata is an event that combines the legend of a star festival where Kyunyu and Shokujosei meet once a year in the Milky Way with rituals to pray for improvement in Hataori weaving, sewing and calligraphy. Around the Nara period, it was introduced to Japan and began to be held as a court event.

The reason why it is called Tanabata is because, every year on the night of July 7th, the custom of hanging colorful strips and decorations with wishes written on them from bamboo leaves and praying to the stars still remains.