Tsukimi Posted by Ginny on Sep 19, 2010 in Uncategorized
Tsukimi (月見) is a very low key festival. It’s celebrated on the 15th of the eight month on the lunar calendar. It’s said that the 15th of the eighth month is when the moon is the brightest and fullest. People go outside to see the moon, and as you can see, it’s very visible in the dark :
A common tradition is to make white, round, sweet dumplings called tsukimi dango (月見団子); which are made in the shape of a round moon.
If you’re wondering what those round, brown things were in the video, those were chestnuts. The 15th of the eighth month on the lunar calendar is a day of large harvests. The chestnuts symbolize the plentiful harvest.
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