{"id":3463,"date":"2021-09-24T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2021-09-24T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:33:39","slug":"moon-viewing2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/moon-viewing2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-autumn moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>September 21st was the day of &#8220;the moon viewing ~ O-tsukimi ~&#8221;.<br \/>\r\nIn Japan, the full moon was seen for the first time in eight years.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is a picture taken in Tokyo around 18:50.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FullMoon-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3708\" \/><\/p>\r\n<div style=\"\u201dclear: both;\"><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>In Japan, it is often said that a rabbit is making rice cakes on the moon. Can you recognize it?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>O-tsukimi\uff08the moon viewing\uff09 refers to the &#8220;Juugo-ya \uff5e15th night\uff5e&#8221; on August 15th of the lunar calendar. It&#8217;s an autumn event where summer is over and it gets cooler.<\/p>\r\n<p>The custom of viewing the moon was originally transmitted from China, and upper class people held a moon feast and watched the moon.\r\nLater, in connection with the harvest festival of agricultural products, people began to appreciate the 15 nights as a symbol of abundant fruit\uff53, offer offerings, and offer gratitude and prayers.<\/p>\r\n<p>In modern Japan, customs are simplified and it is common to decorate pampas grass(Susuki) and eat dumpling balls(Dango).<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Did you see the beautiful moon where you are?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4024748_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3710\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; September 21st was the day of &#8220;the moon viewing ~ O-tsukimi ~&#8221;. In Japan, the full moon was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/256528_m.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}