Saturday, July 19, 2008

Tanabata

I was on wikipedia and I found some AWESOME news...now I need to adjust because of how cool this is. The date of August seventh that I had picked (because July seventh had passed and it is sometimes celebrated on that day) is actually the correct date for this year! The date on the Gregorian calender will not be the same until 2019! I copied this from the artical
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Date

The original Tanabata date was based on the Japanese lunisolar calendar, which is about a month behind the Gregorian calendar. As a result, some festivals are held on July 7, some are held on a few days around August 7, while the others are still held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the traditional Japanese lunisolar calendar, which is usually in August in the Gregorian Calendar.

The Gregorian dates of "the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the Japanese lunisolar calendar" for the coming years are:

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