{"id":313,"date":"2015-09-09T21:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/?p=313"},"modified":"2015-09-09T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:55:01","slug":"otsukimi-the-fifteenth-night-of-a-lunar-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/archives\/313","title":{"rendered":"Otsukimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138e0c8c1abf3d2cb62426620dc31093-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-314  alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138e0c8c1abf3d2cb62426620dc31093-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\u304a\u6708\u898b\u30bf\u30da\u30b9\u30c8\u30ea\u30fc\" width=\"481\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Otsukimi(The fifteenth night of a lunar month) is a seasonal festival which we enjoy the moon on one night between<\/p>\n<p>July and September (usually August 15th) on the Chinese calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Otsukimi means \u201cviewing the moon\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, it falls on September 27<sup>th<\/sup> on the Gregorian calendar.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, people offer Japanese pampas grass and rice or yam dumplings to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that Japanese pampas grass protects houses against evil.<\/p>\n<p>People make rice dumplings using crops from their own rice fields.<\/p>\n<p>When old people see the moon,<\/p>\n<p>they thank god for harvest,<\/p>\n<p>they think about their ancestors, and<\/p>\n<p>they pray everything will go well.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that the moon on the day isn\u2019t a full moon. The full moon is a day after the day of \u201cOtsukimi\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/a5f5310a95fd961eecb1674c6c0ab256-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-315  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/a5f5310a95fd961eecb1674c6c0ab256-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\u304a\u6708\u898b\u98fe\u308a\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otsukimi(The fifteenth night of a lunar month) is a seasonal festival which we enjoy the moon on one night between July and September (usually August 15th) on the Chinese calendar&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-every-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kura-cooking.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}