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<\/p>\nThe Itoshima Taketori Monogatari fun-filled bamboo light-up festival will be held to celebrate July\u2019s Tanabata (Star Festival). The event pays homage to the famous Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)\u200b and will have six thousand bamboo garden lanterns dotted around Marutaike Park to create a magical atmosphere. The lanterns are made out of bamboo collected from forest thinning in the area. The Itoshima Youth Committee is helping with the event to raise awareness about the problems arising from bamboo thickets in the local area.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 7\/13 (Fri.) ~ 7\/15 (Sun.) The Itoshima Taketori Monogatari fun-filled bamboo light-up festival will be held to celebrate July\u2019s Tanabata (Star Festival). The event pays homage to the famous Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)\u200b and will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":99831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-112052","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-itoshima","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/112052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 18:00~22:00
\n\u2022 Free
\n\u2022 Marutaike Park
\n\u2022 Marutaike Park, Itoshima City<\/a>
\n\u2022 080-3378-8363<\/a> (Itoshima Youth Committee Organization)
\n\u2022 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itoshima.taketori.monogatari\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"