Tanabata
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Tanabata, also known as the Star Festival, is a Japanese festival originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival. It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. According to legend, the M
Celebration in Tokyo, 2010
Women dressed in yukata at Tanabata
Japanese woodblock print of Tanabata festivities in Edo (Tokyo), 1852, by Hiroshige
Yashima Gakutei
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are characters found in Chinese mythology who appear eponymously in a romantic Chinese folk tale. The story tells of the romance between Zhinü the weaver girl, symboliz
The reunion of the couple on the bridge of magpies. Artwork in the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace, Beijing
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting on the magpie bridge.
View of the night sky: Vega (Zhinü the weaver-girl) is at top left, Altair (Niulang the cowherd) at lower centre. The heavenly river (Milky Way) separates them.
Zhinü with a shuttle in her hand, painted by Zhang Ling, Ming dynasty