My daughter made this in Japanese summer school earlier today. These are the two characters from the famous story (which has origins in China) behind the Tanabata festival in Japan.1 On the left is Orihime the princess, and on the right is the cowherd Hikoboshi. As the story goes, they lived in the heavens and fell in love, but Orihime's father wouldn't permit it, and separated them across the River of the Heavens (the…
