--- allyn yonge <ayonge@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

In answer to your question about the rabbit in the
moon legend the following may be useful:


Myths and Legend's of Japan
by F. Hadland Davis
Published 1913


p. 162

"To this day Japanese peasants still believe in the
Hare in the Moon. This animal employs its time in
pounding rice in a mortar and making rice cakes. The
origin of this conception is probably to be found in a
pun, for 'rice-cake' and 'full moon' are both
described by the word mochi."
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And I kept telling my brother that the shape in the full 
moon was a rabbit stirring a pot. It is, look at it some 
clear night!
   Of course, looked at another way, it could be the Energizer
bunny...

-Valandar the Red of the Empty Tankard
http://members.tripod.com/~Valandar/fanfic.html
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