Tanabata palm (Animal Crossing)

Tanabata palm #373
Text
Buy price			Sell price
1,925 Bells			481 Bells
Size		1 × 1
Obtain via: (DnM+)		Tortimer (Tanabata)
Obtain via: (AC/DnMe+)		Crazy Redd's  Treasure hunt  Tree (good luck)  Wisp
HRA points		412
HRA penalty if facing wall		Unknown
Feng shui		Special
Appearances
DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue
In other games
City Folk (bamboo grass) New Leaf (bamboo grass) New Horizons (bamboo grass)
Names in other languages  たなばたのササ  N/A  palme tanabata  árbol tanabata  palma tanabata  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  Palmwedel  N/A

The tanabata palm is a furniture item in Doubutsu no Mori+, Animal Crossing, and Doubutsu no Mori e+. The player can interact with this item to bring up a dialog.

The tanabata palm can be obtained from Crazy Redd's Furniture Emporium for  1,925 Bells, Wisp, a treasure hunt, or trees when the player has good luck. In Doubutsu no Mori+, it can instead be obtained from Tortimer during Tanabata. For the purpose of fêng shui, its color is special. This item is lucky, meaning it gives a 777-point Happy Room Academy bonus when placed in the player's house.

When interacted with, one of nine colored tags will be read at random:

• The red tag says: "I want to become a better cook."
• The blue tag says, "I hope I don't get hurt or sick."
• The green tag says, "I hope I get to eat a lot."
• The yellow tag says, "I hope I become popular."
• The orange tag says, "I hope I learn to learn better."
• The pink tag says, "I hope he notices me."
• The pale blue tag says, "I hope I make lots of new friends."
• The yellow tag says, "I hope everyone gets along."
• The silver tag says, "I hope everybody goes to the island this year. ーKapp'n"

No villagers have this item in their home.

Real-world information

A photo of a bamboo tree with hanging tanzaku.

A tradition done on the Japanese festival Tanabata (たなばた/七夕, Tanabata^?) is for people to write their wishes on a piece of paper known as a tanzaku (短冊, tanzaku^?). These are then hanged on a bamboo tree for the remainder of the Tanabata festival. After the festival, the bamboo tree itself, with the tanzaku attached, is either burned or left to float on a river. More information on this topic is available at Wikipedia.

In other games

• Bamboo grass (New Leaf)
• Bamboo grass (New Horizons)

References

• Includes data sourced from the ACGC Spreadsheet project (Spreadsheet)