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Tanabata festival
The beautiful Imari five-piece garniture set which the Van Diepen Foundation recently acquired is decorated with a scene in which three women hang various colored ribbons (with text) from branches.
Five-piece garniture set with Tanabata painting
Now we have been able to link this to an old legend and the current Japanese Tanabata festival.
Partly because of a Japanese print from ca.1718 from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, with a similar depiction to the vases, it can be linked to the legend and the festival still celebrated in Japan.