Whisper from TOTORO

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On october 4, we saw the harvest moon.
On the night of harvest moon, Japanese enjoy moon viewing. It's one of traditional yearly events. Some enjoy it with having "dango"(rice cake) and some with drinking.
Moon viewing is called "tsukimi", the dango is called "tsukimi-dango", the alcohol is "tsukimi-zake(sake)".
It is just like "hanami", "hanami-zake" and "hanami-dango".

right:Tsukimi is never without "susuki"(Japanese pampas grass)


Tsukimi-dango.
Look at the package paper behind.
There is 3 items set of "tsukimi"--rabbit, susuki and dango in it.
Japanese think that a rabbit is making rice cake in the moon.