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  Type: Special Event
  Date: Thursday - 7/10/2008
  Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m
  Location:
  Japanese Cultural
  Center of Hawaii
  2454 S. Beretania Street
  Teruya Courtyard 1st Floor
  Honolulu, Hawaii 96826
  
  Phone: (808) 945-7633
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JCCH Celebrates Starry Summer Night With Food, Entertainment
Eat, drink & make wishes at JCCH's first-ever Starry Summer Night event

HONOLULU-- Celebrate the summer season at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i's (JCCH) Starry Summer Night: Tanabata Matsuri in Hawai'i, a Japanese star-themed festival featuring delectable delights, entertainment and wish-making traditions on Thursday, July 10, 2008 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., in the JCCH Teruya Courtyard, first floor. Admission is free for JCCH members; $3 for non-members. Event is for adults 21 years old and older only. Food will be a separate cost. For more information, contact the JCCH at (808) 945-7633

In a setting reminiscent of Japan streets lined with various food vendors, festival-goers can nosh on fare such as crab ramen with truffle butter and fresh herbs and a shrimp tempura hand-rolled sushi with masago aioli and unagi glaze by Sansei Seafood Restaurant; a sushi and tempura bar will provide assorted maguro, hamachi and sake nigiri and spicy tuna chirashi (sushi rice) by Superb Sushi; ahi poke salad by Lily Koi Restaurant and Lounge; fork-tender barbeque beef tri-tip, Korean chicken and Chinese chicken salad by Kenny's Restaurant and Louisiana jambalaya and honey barbeque baby back ribs by Kevin's Two Boots. For dessert, there will be treats such as chocolate cake, blueberry cheesecake and a fresh fruit tart by JJ's Bistro & French Pastry and andagi (Okinawan doughnuts) by Honpa Hongwanji Mission School. All dishes are under $5.

Performances by Honolulu musical groups A Touch of Gold and the Kinshukai Taisho Koto and storytelling by Lopaka Kapanui will also take place on stage throughout the night.

In Japan, Tanabata (evening of the seventh) celebrates the Japanese folk tale of Orihime and Hikoboshi, two star-crossed lovers who are separated by the Milky Way and only allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In some communities, they celebrate this date with wish writing, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (small pieces of paper) and hanging them on bamboo alongside other colorful decorations that represent long life, family safety and prosperity.

At this JCCH event, guests can also take part in this wish-making tradition by making wishes on tanzaku and stringing it on bamboo branches in hopes that Orihime picks them up on her way to meet Hikoboshi. Ben Franklin Crafts will also present a craft booth where guests can create make-n-take a crystal star charm or a mini star book that can be used as a scrapbook.

Originally based after the Chinese celebration, Festival to Plead for Skills, Tanabata was adopted by Japan's Kyoto Imperial Palace during the Heian Period. The festival spread to the general public by the early Edo period, and became mixed with various Obon traditions, and developed into the modern Tanabata festival. During the Edo period, girls wished for better sewing and craftsmanship and boys wished for better handwriting by writing their wishes on strips of paper.

The Starry Summer Night: Tanabata Matsuri in Hawai'i is made possible in large part through a generous grant by the Hawaii Tourism Authority - City and County of Honolulu County Product Enrichment Program, Ben Franklin Crafts and Curt Otaguro.

The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i (JCCH), a non-profit organization, strives to share the history, heritage and culture of the evolving Japanese American experience in Hawai'i. Located in MØ'ili'ili, the JCCH features a Community and Historical Gallery, Resource Center, Kenshikan martial arts dØjØ, SeikØan Japanese teahouse and Gift Shop. For more information call (808) 945-7633.

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