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Held every year on July 7th, Japan’s ‘tanabata’ festival celebrates the celestial reunion of the Weaver Princess and her beau, the Cowherd. When the two descend from the sky, their story seems suddenly so much less romantic….
And lo, it is said, if he who eats of the sakura-mochi or ‘cherry blossom rice-cake’ is meant…