Tanabata 🎋 (2023-07-07) begins in Japan in about 4 hours (UTC+09). Make your tanzaku, write your wishes, and find a bamboo tree! #七夕 #Haruhi #星祭
Edit(2023-07-06T11:50+00): Here are some notes by DrinkingMocha on Tanabata in the context of the plot of the Haruhi series. The main image above is a cropped frame from the episode “Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody” which aired in Japan on 2009-05-22.
If you’re in Portland, Oregon, you might try visiting the Portland Japanese Garden which have bamboo trees for hanging tanzaku. The garden opens up to the general public at 10am local time (UTC-07).
“Portland Japanese Garden Tanabata tanzaku” by Baltakatei is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Also,
U+1F38B TANABATA TREEis the Unicode point for 🎋.