ocr: Site 02 Taxi FIELD NOTES I filmed the taxi ride from the station until we pulled up in front of my family home.... lots of Tanabata streamers. When I was a kid our shop participated: I spent all my money fishing for gold- fish. Tanabata, or Star Festival, used to be a small thing, like hanging out lanterns -- now Hiratsuka has one of the largest lanabata restivals in Japan. lanabata The cltys tourist Hiratsu brochure has a different version of lanabata Festival brochure, (c) 1992 the Tanabata myth Shonan ESS, Hiratsuka than the one I know: Kanagawa, Japan RETURN