2000jan25. Rabbits poundin’ the mochi during Otsukimi (a full moon viewing in autumn). Pound, rabbits, pound! “Mochi” means “full moon” and “rice flour,” and that is what mochi is made from, by pounding, like the rabbits, there in the full moon. Get it? Like Americans see the “man on the moon,” the new film starring Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman, the Japanese see “the rabbits pounding the mochi.” Which is probably not the subject of a film. But I’m not the guy that would know.
