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Happy Tanabata
Since we don't have any bamboo handy, when the kids were little we'd attach our wishes to the branches of our birch tree or rhododendron bushes.
Here's a sweet illustration of what Tanabata celebrations used to look like in Edo-Period Japan. The artist is Sayuri Sasai; she posts on Instagram and Twitter. Here is her Tanabata post from Twitter:
(Link to tweet)
Her pictures of daily life during the Edo period are super charming (and informative!)--I think many of my Dreamwidth friends would like this one of an ukiyo-e artist who lives with cats:
(link to tweet)
If you'd like to see more of her work, here is her Instagram account--which is where she posts more of her pictures--and here is her Twitter account. (I posted from Twitter because the embed function from Instagram wasn't working on my browser.)
Here's a sweet illustration of what Tanabata celebrations used to look like in Edo-Period Japan. The artist is Sayuri Sasai; she posts on Instagram and Twitter. Here is her Tanabata post from Twitter:
(Link to tweet)
Her pictures of daily life during the Edo period are super charming (and informative!)--I think many of my Dreamwidth friends would like this one of an ukiyo-e artist who lives with cats:
(link to tweet)
If you'd like to see more of her work, here is her Instagram account--which is where she posts more of her pictures--and here is her Twitter account. (I posted from Twitter because the embed function from Instagram wasn't working on my browser.)
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Some really bad news from Japan today.
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I don't believe she does--at least, I haven't seen the possibility of them prominently promoted. It seems like she may publish books of them? I'll look again and see what I can find.