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Naruto carries a bamboo tree at the end with some stuff hanging from it like a
Christmas tree.  
Is there any significance to the bamboo?

![naruto](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qK8e3.jpg)


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What is the significance of the bamboo tree that naruto carries at the end of the op?


This seems to me to be a reference to Tanabata festival.

Tanabata is a traditional star festival, celebrating the meeting of the
deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and ALtair).

According to legend,

> the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once
> a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar
> calendar. [(1)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata)

There is a tradition to write wishes on small pieces of paper and hang them on
a bamboo tree:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k4pof.jpg)

So I would way Naruto is holding a small wishing tree with wishes from his
friends.


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