Tonight is “Otsukimi”, but cloudy.

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• Thank you for this post. I've enjoyed the big moon yesterday night. It's very big also here in the other side of the globe ^^. As you probably already know, we "see" in the moon a face (more or less human and more or less smiling). I kind of prefer the "rabbit" interpretation, though. ^^

  • Hi Shizuka!

    > we "see" in the moon a face
    Yes, I've heard of it. We, i.e. people on the Earth, have seen different things in the moon since many years ago, a face, a lion, a rabbit, a crab, and so on. Very interesting!

    > I’ve enjoyed the big moon yesterday night.
    We can calculate moon's semi-diameter on this page when we see it from the earth. Amazing! Super moons sometimes call on us, and each super moon has a different diameter.

    I could not see the moon just after 十五夜 (literally: fifteenth night) because of more cloudy, hence no photos. So I took pictures of the seventeenth night moon. We call seventeenth night moons 立待月 (literally: Moon we wait standing). Moonrise becomes late with its age, so sixteenth night moons are called いざよい (literally: hesitation), seventeenth night moons are called 立待月, etc.

    立待月

    雲間の月

    The moon on the photos is with thin clouds. In my opinion the moon with thin cloud is more beautiful than the clear moon. This is maybe Japanese feelings.