Harvest moon – Otsukimi tomorrow

Otsukimi is a seasonal festival to enjoy the moon in the middle of autumnal month of old lunar calendar. The full moon around this season is considered particularly beautiful, as crisper, bracing air comes along and the heat of summer subsides. Otsukimi means “viewing the moon’

In japan, people decorate with silver grasses and offer rice dumplings to the moon. It is said that silver grass can house a Shinto God, and acts as a charm against evil. People offer the rice dumplings in appreciation for the harvest of grains.

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