Beauty Writing a Wish on a Poem Paper for the "Tanabata" Festival 七夕の短冊を書く美人たなばた たんざく か びじん
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A woman writes her wishes for a traditional Japanese festival known as [tanabata]. This references the literary classic [The Tales of Ise], where the traveling protagonist expresses his nostalgic wishes for home and his wife when writing a poem at Yatsuhashi Bridge. With this allusion, it is almost as if their wishes were speaking to each other,
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
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September 14, 2026