Tanabatan.
/tanaˈbɑːtə/ A Japanese festival held annually on 7 July (that in Sendai, N. Honshu, being the most famous), in which the heavenly lovers Shokujo and Kengyū are celebrated and asked to confer skill in weaving and other domestic arts.
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1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. xxxiv. 372 This festival is called the tanabata or seiseki festival.
1890 B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 327 The only fable worth mentioning here in connection with the stars is that which inspires the festival named Tanabata.
1934 S. Akimoto Lure of Japan 17 Take the ‘summer moon’, which plays so large a part in the poetry of summer, and the Festival of Stars—‘Tanabata Matsuri’—of July 7th.
1958 A. Thwaite Young Traveller in Japan xii. 123 The Tanabata Matsuri celebrates the meeting of two stars, who are thought of as lovers, separated the rest of the year... Many of the more puritanical Japanese think that in Sendai the festival has become debased.
1980 R. Illing Art Japanese Prints ix. 142 The hanging decorations and coloured poetry slips at the top of the print suggest that it was issued for the Tanabata festival.
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