Tanabata (Japanese: たなばた or 七夕, meaning "Evening of the seventh"), also known as the Star Festival (星祭り, Hoshimatsuri), is a Japanese festival originating...

Tanabata no Kuni (七夕の国, lit. 'Tanabata Country') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It was serialized in Shogakukan's...

novel entitled Rosario + Vampire: Tanabata's Miss Yokai Academy (ロザリオとバンパイア 七夕のミス陽海学園, Rozario to Banpaia: Tanabata no Misu Yōkai Gakuen) was developed...

chosen as a homage to the famous Tanabata festival in Sendai. The names of the two celestial stars of the Tanabata legend, Vega and Altair were combined...

narrow valley to the north of Kōshōji Kofun. It borders a reservoir called Tanabata Pond, from which it is named. It was discovered during the construction...

Aoba Street (青葉通, Aoba dōri). In the summer, the Sendai Tanabata Festival, the largest Tanabata festival in Japan, is held. In winter, the trees are decorated...

Tanabata-jinja (七夕神社), also known as Himekoso-jinja (媛社神社), is a Shinto shrine located in Ogōri, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to Orihime...

The Tanabata Sho (Japanese 七夕賞) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in July over a distance of 2000 metres on turf at Fukushima...

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Han Dynasty.[better source needed] It has also been celebrated as the Tanabata festival in Japan and the Chilseok festival in Korea. In ancient times...