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Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · last week

👋🌿WELCOMING SPRING🐦🎶

In the traditional calendar spring has arrived.
During 'Risshun' (立春) the 'east wind melts the ice' (東風解凍 Feb 4th-8th), 'bush warblers begin singing in the mountains' (黄鶯睍睆 9-13th), and mysteriously 'fish emerge from the ice' (魚上氷 14-18th).

#snow #spring #Kyoto #Tojiin

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Toji-in's 'Seiren-tei' teahouse in the snow.

The dry landscape garden at Toji-in covered in snow.

The garden and pond at Toji-in become a winter wonderland after snowfall.

Looking down at the main hall of Toji-in in the snow. Clipped azalea bushes look like the beginnings of snowmen.

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · last week

But for the east wind to melt the ice, there first needs to be some brutally chilly weather...
....and sure enough snow arrived on cue🌬️🌨️🥶

The city has very few snowy days, but in recent years snow seems to settle thickest with the first wave of blooming ume trees.
#snow #京都

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Snow settles on the blooming ume trees at Kitano Tenmangu.

Snow settles on the blooming ume trees at Kitano Tenmangu.

Snow settles on the blooming ume trees at Kitano Tenmangu.

Snow settles on the blooming ume trees at Kitano Tenmangu.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · last week

❄️FOUR FRIENDS OF THE SNOW💮

Daffodils, camellias, wintersweet and Japanese apricots are known as 'setchū-no-shiyū' (雪中四友), the 'Four Friends of the Snow'.

keeping company
with the plum tree-
the gate's last snow
梅の木の連に残るや門の雪
-Kobayashi Issa, 1822.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

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Daffodil inspired sweet.

A red camellia flower inspired sweet.

A yellow kinton sweet mimics the yellow flowers of the wintersweet.

A nerikiri sweet shaped into a stylized ume flower.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · last week

A fine snow falls about Myōshin-ji's Lecture Hall.

#Myoshinji #妙心寺 #snow #snowday #snowfall #zen #Kyoto

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