Uploaded by soneeka
Date uploaded: 2007-08-13
Length: 9:52 minutes
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Description: This movie is taken in the place called Asagaya, Tokyo. It's a 5 days festival, from 5 to 9 August, 2004. The entire shopping arcade is decorated. It's fun to walk though the long streamers on the street.July 7th is called tanabata in Japan. It's a Japanese tradition wherein people write their wishes on tanzaku papers (colorful, small strips of papers) and hang them on bamboo branches. People also hang many kinds of paper decorations on bamboo branches and place them outside their houses. Many cities and towns hold tanabata festivals and have tanabata displays, decorating the main streets. In some regions, people light lanterns and float them on the river, or float bamboo leaves on the river. Tanabata events are held all over Japan, but the festivals in Sendai-city, Miyagi Prefecture and Hiratsuka-city, Kanagawa Prefecture are particularly well-known. Huge Tanabata decorations fill the main streets in these cities and attract millions of visitors every year.
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Traditional japanese festival called Tanabata Video
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soneeka
hedeki san, thanks for the information...
hedeki35
tanabata isnt really held on july 7th, it's normally around august. and yea, tanabata doesnt mean star-festival, it's the night of sevens.
soneeka
really? so u should come n visit the festival in your birthday??
danyayvette10
this festival is the same day of my B-day.
Tirfing88
It's from a legend that says that a young couple got married but the father of the girl became pissed off so he sepaprated them, each one was sent to one side of a river and they could only be togheter one time of the year, when the water level of the river decreased and a little bridge could be used. These two lovers separated by the river are symbolized in our time by the stars Vega and Altair, whose are separated by the milky river BUT they can be seen both in one side just this day of July.
soneeka
u must be true BReBri23, since u r japanese, we must trust ur saying...
BreBri23
no Tanabata means_ the night of sevens! im frum japan and i really injoyed this vidio it brings back memories of my tanabata
soneeka
thanks for the information.hajimete kikimasita.
Near1113
ăăȘă°ă Its supposed to be a legend about the goddess from heaven who married a man from earth because she was forced to stay on it ne? ^_^
soneeka
greate.thanks for liking it.
livepandaman
Nice Tanabata means starfestivali lke the coolers
raulnacamura
aewsome
aat08
thanks for the share it looks awesome!i'll be there next year :)