Festival Videos

Tanabata Festival Video

Festival Location: Sendai, Japan

Festival Type(s): Traditional Festivals, Cultural Festivals


A walk around the colourful Tanabata Festival held annually on July 7th accross Japan. This traditional celebration sees locals write their wishes on tanzaku paper and hang them on bamboo branches outside their homes. In the cities the most common Tanabata decorations are the colorful streamers as seen in this video. These streamers are said to symbolize the weaving of threads.



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