My friend at Bunny Bytes made this quilt for me to give to my brother and his wife for their first born. The quilt loosely tells a story of a little bunny who after a day of playing, makes mochi (rice cakes) and then watches the moon rise with her parents before drifting to sleep and moon dreams. The rabbit and the moon is a myth found in many cultures. In Japan, the rabbit makes mochi on the moon. A friend explained: in Japanese “rice pounding bunny” is written as ????, which reads “mochi tsuki usagi” and translates literally as “mochi-making rabbit.” Mochi-tsuki is the traditional ceremony/process where mochi is made by pounding rice. The funny thing is that the rabbit actually appears to be in the moon, appearing to make mochi. And the reading of the word for “making” is the same as “moon” (“tsuki”).
Fabric can be purchased at Shibori Dragon.
(And I have to apologize both to Jenny and to my brother that I had no idea how dusty and furry this was when I took the photos!)
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- Kanji for “spring”, which is when our niece was born.
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- Bunny plays on the waves.
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- Bunny plays on the waves
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- Bunny plays with flowers.
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- Bunny flies her kite
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- Bunny plays with her windmill.
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- Bunny pounds the rice into mochi rice cakes.
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- Bunny watches the moon rise with her parents
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- Bunny carries her balls of mochi to…
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- …to bed. Bunny drifts on to dream land.
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- Bunny dreams of being on the moon.
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- Family crest
