Rabbit

Why I made it?

I picked the rabbit because my siblings and mothers family is from Calgary. I always see lots of jack rabbits running around there. In winter, you will see them trying to dig up grass that is covered in snow or just sitting behind a tree looking like a pile of snow themselves.

Meaning

The rabbit represents rebirth and fertility because they have a lot of babies so that their legacy and blood lives on after the parents pass.  

There is a festival during the autumn moon for the rabbit called "Tsukimi". It started in the Nara period but kicked off in the Heian period. People sit under the moon looking into the reflection in the water reciting Tanka poetry while eating mochi and dango because of a story the rabbit pounding mochi on the moon

Interesting Facts

The story of the rabbit that is told to little kids in Japan is about a god that comes down to earth. The other animals gaveve the god that looks like a beggar some of their food. The rabbit eats grass, and knowing that humans don’t eat grass, but meat, he made a fire then jumped in it. Thought the fire did not burn the rabbit, the beggar revealed that he was Sakra, the ruler of gods. Sakra was touched by the rabbit's selflessness and virtue, so he drew the rabbit on the moon so that those who look at the moon remember the rabbit's kindness