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  2. Culture Tsukimi - the Japanese Moon Viewing Festival

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    In Japanese mythology, the moon rabbit is called Tsuki no Usagi (月の兎) and originates in Shintō, referring to the "Legend of the Fox, the Monkey and the Rabbit". According to this legend, a fox, a monkey and a rabbit - bound by deep friendship - played in the mountains during the day and hunted, spending the night together in the forest.

  3. Bunny name - Japan Reference

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    9. Sakura (cherry blossom) Miruku (=milk) Moka (came from mocha, type of coffee) Rin. 10. Nana (can be either Japanese female name or western name) Rabi (from English "rabbit") As your bunny is brown, you might name him.

  4. Do the Japanese eat rabbit meat? | Japan Reference - jref.com

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    TAN. 1 Mar 2005. #4. Leroy_Brown said: I know they don't eat dogs. But they eat horse meat. :gohan: Rabbit farms are multiplying like rabbits in the southern U.S. Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines.

  5. Language - Japanese Counters and Classifiers - Japan Reference

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    The Japanese counting system has been taken over from the Chinese. While the Western counting system counts up to 1,000, the Japanese and Chinese system counts up to 10,000. Please find more information on our page on Japanese Numbers & Higher Numerals. Another difference is the way numbers are constructed.

  6. Do the Japanese eat rat? - Japan Reference

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    後輩. 6 Jan 2006. #12. The Japanese don't eat rats, you wont find some backroom restaraunt where with a wink and a national in arm, you'll be escorted back to the inner-sanctum where they will serve you up a taboo gormet rat dish. The Viet Namese eat rat, at bars while drinking beer.

  7. Art - Yokoyama Taikan - Japan Reference

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    Yokoyama Taikan. Yokoyama Taikan (横山大観, 2 November 1868 - 26 February 1958), nom de plume of Sakai Hidezō (酒井秀歳) or Hidematsu (酒井秀松) was one of the first Japanese painters to be involved in the development of a modern Japanese painting style called Nihonga (日本画). Taikan was the son of Sakai Sutehiko (酒井捨彦 ...

  8. Tsukiyomi no Kami and a rabbit on the moon | Japan Reference

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    Tsukiyomi no Kami (Tsukuyomi no Mikoto) is a god but not goddess. And he is the ruler of the Night but not Unabara. Originally Unabara is not land, Unabara means the Sea, of course, but not Korea. The story of an old man and rabbit is in Buddhism but not Shinto. You can not find the moon rabbit in Shinto shrine, of course Buddhist temple too.

  9. Culture - Fundoshi - Japanese loincloths - Japan Reference

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    Etchū fundoshi (越中褌) Fundoshi (also shitaobi 下帯, "waist cloth") consist of a long strip of cloth fastened around the waist, passed between the legs, and tucked in or tied at the back. Early fundoshi were made of linen, but from the 16th-century cotton became more common. The wealthier favoured loincloths made of silk, although plain ...

  10. the rat in japanese art - Japan Reference

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    In about 1770, keeping a white mouse called "Hatsuka Nezumi" was a craze in Edo. The handbook of keeping a mouse, "Chingan sodate gusa" was published in 1787. In it, we can find the mutation and the hybridization of the mice. the signboard of the pet shop : "white mice, etc." The son asked his father to buy a white mouse.

  11. TYJ - Vertebrates in Japanese | Japan Reference

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    Rabbit, hare: 5: りゅう ryû: Dragon. This is an imaginary animal, of course. The word たつ "tatu" also means the dragon and is more commonly used for the year of the dragon. 6: へび he bi: Snake: 7: うま u ma: Horse: 8: ひつじ hi tu zi: Sheep. In China, the year of the goat (やぎ "yagi" in Japanese) is used instead of the sheep ...