Himeji J - Tsuki no Usagi - Hare on the moon
Tsuki no Usagi, or „hare on the moon“ or simply &quot;lunar hare&quot; is a fictive being of the Japanese culture and the Chinese mythology. 

In Japan arises the faith in the &quot;lunar hare&quot; of the Shintō religion and refers to the legends „from the fox, the monkey and the hare“ and „The white hare of Inaba“ (Inaba no shirousagi).

According to the legend a narrow friendship connected a fox, a monkey and a hare. 

While they played during the day in the mountains with each other and went hunting together, they spent the night together in the wood. Man of the sky, Taishakuten got to know from it and found this unusual. 

He looked, dressed up as an old traveller, three friends on. He found them of the evening in the campfire and asked them for something to eat. 

The monkey brought him straight away nuts, the fox gave him a fish. However, the hare found nothing what he could give to the old person. When the monkey and the fox showered the hare so with invective, this jumped desperately in the campfire and shouted: „eat me!“ . Taishakuten was stirred thus by this gesture that he restored the body of the hare and took him with to the moon where he was buried in Taishakutens temple. 

Still today the smoke which the hare had generated with his sacrifice was reflected his shape on the shining lunar surface.
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