Talk:Wish Tree (Yoko Ono art series)

While Yoko Ono may well have done as she said, with regard to "Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar" please allow me to suggest the minor change that in general the white pieces of paper tied to trees in temple (or more specifically shrine) gardens are generally omikuji divination strips of paper which are ready printed with generic wishes, rather than written, whereas the form of the Wish Tree however is indeed found in Tanzaku wishes written on almost identical pieces of paper and tied to bamboo trees at Tanabata Festival (Festival of the Weaver Stars) in July, and on Ema (pictures of horses) which are a votive tablet offered at Shinto shrines. Japanese gods like pictures as much as the real thing (pictures or imaginings are the real thing) so a picture of a horse is gratefully received. A wish is written on the reverse of the picture of a horse and tied to a rack in the grounds of a shrine. They work too!--Timtak (talk) 02:03, 16 July 2017 (UTC)