It has characteristics similar to Halloween as children visit neighboring houses to ask for candles and cakes while singing "we hang tanzaku on a bamboo at Tanabata Matsuri, give us a piece of candle, not many".
子供たちが「竹に短冊七夕祭り、多いはいやよ、蝋燭一本頂戴な」と歌いながら蝋燭やお菓子をもらいに近くの家を訪ね歩くハロウィンのような特徴がある。