Tag: Kikaku 其角

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    Full moon of autumn; on the tatami mat—a pine-tree shadow

    名月や畳の上に松の影

    meigetsu ya tatami no ue ni matsu no kage

    (Kikaku 其角)

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    Meigetsu, literally “famous moon,” refers to the full moon of mid-autumn—the one on the eighth month according to the lunar calendar (which roughly corresponds to the modern month of September).