Mantua: Tanabata, the festival of stars in love at Baratta on Friday 7 July
The event was organized in collaboration with the Kira Kira publishing house and with Librerie Coop. Nautilus Friday 7 July at 18pm.
Mantua: Tanabata, the festival of stars in love at Baratta on Friday 7 July.
La Baratta Library, in Corso Garibaldi 88 a Mantova, organized the event “Tanabata, the festival of stars in love”, in collaboration with the Kira Kira publishing house and with Librerie Coop. Nautilus Friday 7 July at 18pm.
Elena Rambaldi, founder of Kira Kira editions, will present “Stories and figures from Japan” for adults (parents, librarians, teachers, educators, publishing and illustration enthusiasts). He will tell the editorial project of the publishing house focusing on stories, authors, illustrators, poetics and methods of storytelling, to understand the reasons for a choice that led to creating a bridge between Italy and Japan. At the same time, the librarians of Children's and teenagers' room will propose "Stories, secrets and desires”, a reading and a creative workshop designed for girls and boys aged 3 to 8. To the end of the two meetings, adults and children will experience a moment of sharing in the garden of the library to conclude the Star Festival together.
Tanabata, celebrated throughout the Japan on July 7th of each year, is one of most beautiful and heartfelt parties in the country, first party of the summer. This party is one of gosekku, five most important holidays of the Japanese year.
The name Tanabata it is very ancient and probably derives from a Shinto purification ceremony, in which a miko wove a garment on a loom and then offered it to the deity to protect the harvest from the rain and ensure that it was abundant. This miko was called tanabatatsume (woman of the loom) and from this festival merged with the Chinese Kikkōden the modern Tanabata was derived. For Chinese characters, the tanabata pronunciation was therefore chosen.
La party it refers to a astronomical phenomenon and a popular legend in which the reunion of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi represented by the stars Vega and Altair. According to legend these lovers were separated by the Milky Way being able to meet only once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.
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