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Moon Rabbits do double duty as Easter Bunnies!

4/14/2019

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Moon Rabbits Oblong Dish, Made in Japan
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Moon Rabbits Egg-shaped Dish, Origin Unknown

My interest in Asian folklore is relatively new and, as such limited, but I understand that these little fellows are moon rabbits, popular in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other folklore. 

The oblong dish to the left is made in Japan and depicts moon rabbits with the full moon above them in the dark blue night sky.  They are surrounded by eggs.  I had forgotten the imagery on it when I stumbled across the little pastel-coloured dish to the right.  It mystified me a bit at first, because it is egg-shaped and the bunnies are busily cavorting among pretty pink eggs and a flower.  This led me at first to think it was an Easter dish - until I flipped it over and saw an Asian back stamp!  But of course, when you compare the two, there is simply no mistake - I believe the pink flower in this case serves as a pretty substitute for the moon.  

The white moon rabbit lives on the moon and stirs an elixir of immortality.  Sometimes, when you look at the full moon, you can see his image.  I'm not sure if the chocolate eggs I intend to place in these dishes will help in the quest for immortality ... but they certainly will satisfy the evening sweet tooth!

 Bibliography:  Wikipedia, Moon Rabbit, 2019                                  
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Spring Maidens and Easter Bunnies

4/14/2017

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Sarah's Angels (Easter)

​​"Spring is in the air". "Spring has sprung". "A spring in his step". "Spring fever". All these jubilant and energetic expressions of Spring express the same feeling ... the hope, delight and anticipation of new life. Perhaps Spring will bring new experiences, new love, new young ones, and of course, a rebirth of nature!
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Vintage Easter Card

​How appropriate then that even now, bunnies are often shown as a young girl's companion in modern art or home decor.  Perhaps, in older times, the Spring Maiden, or Ostara, was accompanied by an Oster Hare, as the Easter Bunny is called in Germany.  There is some contention on this matter as to whether or not the Spring Goddesses of ancient days were connected with hares, eggs and other symbols of Spring at all ... or if it is a more modern connection recorded around the time that the Grimm Brothers collected their fairy tales.  It matters little to us plebeians! In the eternal mind, the connection was made because it is the correct one.  Bunnies and girls both represent youth, vitality and beginnings ... in every way the very essence of Spring!  ​
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Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts
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Sarah's Angels (Spring)
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