Happy Tanabata<\/a>! Here\u2019s a poem by Noguchi Uj\u014d<\/a> \u91ce\u53e3\u96e8\u60c5 in honor of the occasion. According to Aozora Bunko<\/a>, this was first published in the July 1933 edition of Sh\u014dgaku Ninensei<\/i> (“Elementary school second-grader”) magazine.<\/p>\n Mainen shichigatsu Tan-tan Tanabata Tan-tan Tanabata Tan-tan tanzaku Tanzaku tsurushita Tan-tan tanabata And in quick and inelegant English translation:<\/p>\n Every year in the seventh month Tan-tan<\/i> Tanabata Tan-tan<\/i> Tanabata: Tan-tan<\/i> tanzaku<\/i><\/a>: The tanzaku<\/i> hung, Tan-tan<\/i> Tanabata: Uj\u014d is often praised for the mysterious and somewhat melancholy depth of his writing for children, but as this example shows he was not above straight-ahead soundplay.<\/p>\n “Raise [literally “stand up”] the bamboo”: Back in the Edo period, people really took this seriously. A picture like this<\/a> (Hiroshige, 1857) shows clearly that the tanzaku<\/i>-laden bamboo was raised well above the roofs. Now even the de facto official Tanabata song, “Tanabata-sama<\/a>,” has the tanzaku<\/i> swaying nokiba ni<\/i>, “eaves-LOC,” which is at best “by the eaves” and more naturally “under (i.e. hanging from) the eaves.” <\/p>\n Beorht w\u00e6ron burgr\u00e6ced burnsele monige Happy Tanabata! Here\u2019s a poem by Noguchi Uj\u014d \u91ce\u53e3\u96e8\u60c5 in honor of the occasion. According to Aozora Bunko, this was first published in the July 1933 edition of Sh\u014dgaku Ninensei (“Elementary school second-grader”) magazine. Mainen shichigatsu Nanoka ni wa Tan-tan Tanabata Hoshi matsuri Tan-tan Tanabata Kita naraba Tan-tan tanzaku Uta kaite Tanzaku tsurushita Take tatete … Continue reading “Tan-tan<\/i> Tanzaku”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[42,26,40,41,43],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-hiroshige","tag-japanese","tag-noguchi-ujo","tag-poetry","tag-tanabata"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bLCp-17","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNanoka ni wa<\/p>\n
\nHoshi matsuri<\/p>\n
\nKita naraba<\/p>\n
\nUta kaite<\/p>\n
\nTake tatete<\/p>\n
\nMatsurimash\u014d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nOn the seventh day<\/p>\n
\nThe star festival<\/p>\n
\nWhen it has arrived<\/p>\n
\nWrite a poem<\/p>\n
\nRaise the bamboo<\/p>\n
\nLet’s celebrate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nheah horngestreon heresweg micel
\nmeodoheall monig mondreama full
\no\u00fe\u00fe\u00e6t \u00fe\u00e6t onwende wyrd seo swi\u00fee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"