Tanabata
    25” w x 50” h
    stained glass, lead
    2001

 
    Tanabata and her husband became too fond of each other
    and neglected their duty to her father, the God of Heaven.
    Therefore he separated the pair with the river of heaven,
    the Milky Way, flowing between them. On certain nights
    the birds of heaven become a bridge over the stream.

    If the skies are clear on the seventh night
    of the seventh moon, lovely Tanabata comes,
    clad in blue and lighted by a yellow candle,
    to meet her parted lover on the Milky Way.
            – Bertha Lum, Vogue, April 15, 1914
 
 
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