Please register here: https://endurancecui.active.com/event-reg/select-race?e=97554820The Chicago Park District's Osaka Garden is honored to invite you to our annual Tsukimi, or Moon Viewing Festival! Tsukimi, or moon viewing, has been a popular pastime in Japan for centuries. Traditionally, tsukimi is celebrated with music and poetry while appreciating the beauty of the moon harvest moon. Later, rice offerings were made to express gratitude for a good harvest. Today's celebrations bring these customs together. This year we welcome guests to join us for an evening of small poems under the moon read by a haiku poet or two from the Haiku Society of America and Regina Harris Baiocchi of Chicago's own Haiku Festival. Learn more about this craft and discover your own harvest moon poems among friends, mochi, and moonlight. This event will both share haiku written by professional poets, and teach guests how to craft their own. Master shodo calligrapher Heikun Oda will perform a "big brush" calligraphy demonstration, and we also will have a limited number of tsukimi dango, or moon viewing mochi to enjoy. These mochi resemble the moon with their round shape and white coloring, and…
