Happy Tanabata

[asakiyume]

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.)

Comments

[asakiyume]

The artist's sense of place, personality, and detail are so wonderful. In the first picture, I also like the cat on the roof in the distance. And yes, that cozily curled-up kitten in the second!

[sonia]

Oh, yes, thank you for pointing out the cat on the roof!