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In Japanese folklore, the Takarabune (宝船), or "Treasure Ship", is a mythical ship piloted through the heavens by the Seven Lucky Gods during the first three days of the New Year. A picture of the ship forms an essential part of traditional Japanese New Year celebrations. Japanese suiseki stone representing Takarabune.
Tanabata (Japanese: たなばた or 七夕, meaning "Evening of the Seventh"), also known as the Star Festival (星祭り, Hoshimatsuri), is a Japanese festival originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival. [1] [a] [b] It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively).
7: Western, Japanese [3] [4] 8: Chinese, Japanese Sounds like the Chinese word for "fortune". See Numbers in Chinese culture#Eight. Used to mean the sacred and infinite in Japanese. A prime example is using the number 8 to refer to Countless/Infinite Gods (八百万の神, Yaoyorozu no Kami) (lit. Eight Million Gods). See 8#As a lucky number ...
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The meaning of 7 is spirituality, as it is a combination of 4 (which represents the physical) and 3 (which represents the spiritual). In numerology, 7 represents wholeness and perfection.
[47] [48] [49] Japanese star worship is largely based on Chinese cosmology. [50] According to Bernard Faure, "the cosmotheistic nature of esoteric Buddhism provided an easy bridge for cultural translation between Indian and Chinese cosmologies, on the one hand, and between Indian astrology and local Japanese folk beliefs about the stars, on the ...
' first accomplishment ') – The first shrine visit of the New Year. Hatsuhinode (初日の出, lit. ' First Rising of the Sun ') – The first sunrise of the New Year. Hatsuyume (初夢, lit. ' first dream ') – The first dream that a person has in the New Year. In Shinto, it is believed that the subjects of the first dreams of the year are ...
This annual Shinto ritual, in its 62nd year this time, was held under cloudy skies with temperature nearing 35.6˚ F, which organizers said was one of the coldest day in the past decades.