September is the month for Tsukimi or moon-viewing in Japan. This is an old tradition in order to celebrate the harvest moon. Right now you can find a lot of Tsukimi related sweets and merchandise in the department stores. These usually feature pictures of the moon and ... rabbits (because according to Japanese belief there lives a rabbit on the moon).

 そろそろお月見の時期ですね~

 

 

This is how we celebrated Tsukimi at Hatagaya today. ;)

 It was only a matter of minutes until Ai had made these fabulous rabbit ears!

これはサクラカフェ幡ヶ谷風のお月見でした。

あという間にAiさんが「じゃ~ん」とこのステキなウサギの耳を作っていました。

 

When I tried them on I magically transformed into the reception rabbit!!

かぶってみると私は急にフロントウサギに変身！！？

 

 

Then Maiko arrived at work and decided that seeing me sporting rabbit ears wasn't so unusual after all...

スタッフのMAIKOさんにとってほぼ普通のカッコウのようでしたが・・・

 

 

 

Our Japanese customers seemed to be used to foreigners dressing up as rabbits as well. Everyone pretended I looked totally normal. ^^;

 お客様もちょっともびっくりしてくれませんでした。あれ？（＾＾；）

 

We had fun anyway, taking photos and eating O-Tsukimi-dango. :D

とにかく、お月見団子は満喫しました！笑