moonlight--

This haiku alludes to the harvest festival at the great shrine of Suwa, held on the 26th day of Seventh Month. Two of the Shinto rituals of the day involved pampas grass: one was to build little temporary huts thatched with pampas grass in which hunters hid, awaiting their game; the other ritual was to eat beans and rice with chopsticks of pampas grass; Issa zenshû (Nagano: Shinano Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1976-79) 1.501.