Although tonight we are to enjoy the harvest moon, the air still seems a little warmer this year.
This shows a passage from a Chinese poem and a haiku, both of which have subject on full moon.
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According to the Native American tradition, the full moon this month is called “buck moon”. For, this is about time when horns of bucks that were regrew in spring begin to have antlers. Thanks to this, I learned the words and the difference between “horn” and “antler(s)”.
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Tonight, there will be the full moon of this month, which is called “strawberry moon” according to the Native Americans’ tradition.
For a period of time, it was wrongly believed in Japan that the reason for this name is the moon around this time often looks reddish. However, its origin is strawberries are harvested in this season. I wonder when people began to think December is the strawberries’ season.
Another interesting thing is April’s “pink moon” doesn’t indicate a color, but it is a collective word for pink flowers such as moss phloxes and dianthuses.
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According to the Native Americans’ tradition of giving a name to each month’s full moon, the name for the April full moon is Pink Moon, because the time is early spring when many pink flowers highlight fields and hills.
Then for the May full moon that is coming tomorrow, the name is simply the“flower moon” because the time is for various flowers blooming in profusion.
I love this Chinese character expressing “flower” in any style.
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The tradition of the Native Americans of naming the full moons in each month intrigued me. As today’s moon is the full moon in March, I checked its name to find the term “worm moon” to my little disappointment. For, I was expecting something more romantic.
Then I remembered I wrote before that in the twenty-four solar terms system that is believed to have started in ante-Christum China has “Jingzhe” at the beginning of March when hibernating worms are supposed to emerge from underground.
I thought people in old times must have felt and thought in a similar way about changing of the seasons both in the East and the West.
The most short-tempered worm will emerge from underground/
And move on to the shambles or the real world/
Full of fights, rages, pathos that derive from envy and suspicion/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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People have long celebrated the day, January 15 as a kind of second New Year Day, because according to the lunar calendar, it marks the first full moon after the New Year Day.
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The well-known shrine in my neighborhood provides rice porridge cooked with azuki beans every year.
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I got some for my mother who will turn 92 in summer, because the porridge is supposed and expected to bring good luck to the elderly.
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I wrote “avoiding disaster”, “inviting happiness”, “health” and “longevity” for her.
