moon rabbit
Celestial pestle-wielding creature
A moon rabbit is a figure from East Asian folklore—a rabbit visible in the dark patches of the full moon, often depicted pounding rice or medicine with a mortar and pestle.
The image appears in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese mythology, where the rabbit is companion to the moon goddess.
Can you see the moon rabbit tonight?
- jadeCarved ornamental mineral
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- pestleBowl's crushing companion
- elixir of lifeLegendary immortality concoction
- lunarOf the moon
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