This pretty usagi furoshiki depicts a popular Japanese folktale about a rabbit in the moon (to explain what they see as a rabbit shadow on the moon's surface). The rabbit in the story makes a huge act of self-sacrifice and is rewarded by having his image placed on the moon so humans can remember his selfless act forever. My rabbit has a less heroic role: to keep the pieces of my Totoro bento box together.




As seen here, I've filled the bottom container with rice and the middle container with ingredients for Korean bibimbap: seasoned fern braken, pepper leaves, bean sprouts, egg strips, radish kimchee, and spinach. It turned out rather well except that in the future I will be sure and cut the bibim ingredients into smaller pieces as they didn't disperse as evenly as I'd like in the small Totoro bowl. An stainless steel usagi spoon and chopstick set (not pictured) finished out the piece rather nicely.