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Tsukimi ⽉ By Luis Miguel González Cifuentes Japan’s Harvest Moon Festival, autumn moon Festival Customs and traditional foods. It´s a long-held Japanese tradition. It’s really a traditional festival here in Japan, you can see all the preparations that the people do celebrate that. The Japanese custom of moon viewing is held in mind-autumn and is called Tsukimi or O-tsukimi (the honorific term). It is also referred to as the Mid-Autumn festival. It is widely celebrated all across Japan.
Tsukimi dango The Tsukumi moon viewing custom was the first introduced to Japan by China, during the Heian era (794 – 1185), where it was among a handful of seasonal celebrations of the beauty of nature. Court nobles celebrated O-tsukimi by indulging in banquets, musing and composing poems dedicated to the moon. Today, it’s celebrated at temples and shrines, such as Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto, where dances are performed in Heian-era dress to period music. It takes place on August 15th of the lunar calendar, and it’s also referred to as Jugoya. When I stayed in Japan, had the opportunity of witness this beauty festival, I was in a roji (dewy path”, a small Japanese tea garden) on my way to my friend’s tea house. However, as you round a bamboo fence, the tiny and simple thatched roof teahouse comes into view, and you notice that the windows are dark, and find this a just a little odd. In the tokonoma and there a scroll painting of a moon, barely visible against the palest grey sky, and a bold arrangement of pampas grass and autumn flowers are displayed. It’s grown chilly in recent days, so you’re happy when your host invites you to sit close to the coals as he prepares the kettle for tea. Then, the light begins to grown brighter to the east, and you look out of the open shoji doors to see the moon, barely visible at first, rising past the trees in the distance. The sky is cloudless and the air, clear, rendering the outline of the moon in crisp detail. As the moon appears, impossible huge and dazzling orange. As the moon scatters golden reflection on the garden pond below, you watch, speechless, as it rises, past the sweeping branches of the pines. 11 PAGE
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