Most of the time, the poet uses the same word as the modern one for the moon, tsuki (月), and the speaker is either looking at the moon in the sky or seeing the world by moonlight. When do that, typically they are trying to evoke a feeling associated with either the faint light or the passage of time -- exactly what depends on the poem.
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Re: Moon
Date: 15 June 2016 03:23 pm (UTC)