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"Cutie Honey Action Stickers" scanned from my copy of the first Cutey Honey Flash: Transformation Secrets Book.

˙⋆✮⋆˚࿔ Today is 七夕 Tanabata! Send your wishes to the stars and they may all come true˙⋆✮⋆˚࿔

Page from Shogakukan’s 幼稚園 (Kindergarten magazine), July 1965

Princess Orihime from The legend of Tanabata

"Long ago, in the land of stars, Orihime-boshi, a star deity, was weaving cloth"

The Tanabata Star Festival is celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, which is July 7th in the modern calendar. Some places in Japan celebrate Tanabata on August 7th in accordance with the older Chinese calendar. It commemorates the romantic story of two lovers represented by the stars Vega and Altair, who are only allowed to meet each other once a year. Tanabata originated from the Chinese legend Qixi and was brought to Japan in the 8th century: Princess Orihime, the seamstress, wove beautiful clothes by the Heavenly River (the Milky Way). Because Orihime worked so hard weaving beautiful clothes, she became sad and despaired of ever finding love. Her father, who was a God of the heavens, loved her dearly and arranged for her to meet Hikoboshi, the cow herder who lived on the other side of the Milky Way...