Music performance at Daikakuji before the Tsukimi

This was taken by my fiance who is at JCMU in Japan studying Japanese Language & Culture. It was a performance by priestesses at a temple in Kyoto for the annual moon viewing ceremony.

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• Kyoto
• Japan

[Kylenator]

Thanks (: thats helps alot. Your haiku is really good. I especially like the second one.

[zordnum]

We would prepare many traditional tsukimi festival dishes, & after eating we'ld go outside, write a few haiku while viewing the moon.  Here are some of my old tsukimi haiku: Your breath in my hand, Warm valley filled with moonlight; The night's balm lingers. - - - Looking up I see a muted moon gazing down. How long before dawn? - - - Moonlight in your eyes, the taste of salt on my lips. Stop laughing, hold still.

[Kylenator]

what do you normally do during tsukimi? just asking. I'm doing a research paper on it :)