{"id":419,"date":"2025-06-30T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=419"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:26:41","slug":"july-7-2012-tanabata-star-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/06\/30\/july-7-2012-tanabata-star-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"July 7, 2025: Tanabata (Star Festival)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1338\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tanabata-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" \/>Tanabata<\/strong>\u00a0(\u4e03\u5915, meaning &#8220;Evening of the seventh&#8221;)\u00a0is a Japanese star festival, originating from the Chinese\u00a0<a title=\"Qixi Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qixi_Festival\">Qixi Festival<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 It celebrates the meeting of the deities\u00a0<em>Orihime<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Hikoboshi<\/em>\u00a0(represented by the stars\u00a0<a title=\"Vega\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vega\">Vega<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Altair\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altair\">Altair<\/a>\u00a0respectively). \u00a0According to legend, the\u00a0<a title=\"Milky Way\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milky_Way\">Milky Way<\/a>\u00a0separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the\u00a0<a title=\"Lunisolar calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunisolar_calendar\">lunisolar calendar<\/a>. \u00a0The date of Tanabata varies by region of the country, but the first festivities begin on July 7 of the\u00a0<a title=\"Gregorian calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregorian_calendar\">Gregorian calendar<\/a>. \u00a0The celebration is held at various days between July and August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanabata\u00a0(\u4e03\u5915, meaning &#8220;Evening of the seventh&#8221;)\u00a0is a Japanese star festival, originating from the Chinese\u00a0Qixi Festival.\u00a0\u00a0 It celebrates the meeting of the deities\u00a0Orihime\u00a0and\u00a0Hikoboshi\u00a0(represented by the stars\u00a0Vega\u00a0and\u00a0Altair\u00a0respectively). \u00a0According to legend, the\u00a0Milky Way\u00a0separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/06\/30\/july-7-2012-tanabata-star-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}