- 御名
- 和菓子
- 懐石
- suitable 道具 and 軸
- Ullrich translated the almanac it seems, and added sketches (link)


- it's always around this time of the year when the earth travels through the perseids, and you can see a truckload of falling stars. In Japanese it's 流星, which can be read as ながれぼし, which is a bit childish, or りゅうせい, which is more poetic.
- There is also 夏木立, a grove that gives a feeling of shadow, which Tomoko used in VIII 24.

===General===
   * anticipation for autumn: on 8 VIII, the season changes to 立秋. However, it's still summer hot, so you'd do morning or evening teas.
   * On the first, it's 八朔, where traditionally, tradesmen and 芸者 visit their elders and teachers and inquire about their health. For tea people, good idea to visit your teachers; and for them to make a bowl of tea (八朔釜)
   * The Almanac is a bit unclear about this, but I understood it like there is a training session from the 17.8 to 31.8 at 今日庵 where you play 100 rounds of 花月 from 0800 to 1500 just for training.
   * 花火. In Switzerland, these are not really traditional; the bon fires on the mountains are much more authentic.
   * cicadas (in Japan), so lots of bugs on 道具.

===茶の湯===
   * Ashes for 炉 are prepared: washed with 番茶, then laid out in the sun and repeated; then kept in a ceramic jar (or a 酒 barrel).
   * Using a small 釜 that boils quickly and requires a smaller fire makes sense; or also a closed 風炉 where you can't see the fire; or you could use one in the shape of 富士山 or wind-bells, use a 遠山　灰型 and use lots of フジ灰.
   * The Almanac says how it is still perfectly fine to use the water-related 道具 from July, but you could also start to move towards the first signs of autumn, such as first winds, first falling leaves (一葉） etc.
  * 洗茶巾, and big 水指, as well as buckets; again Bizen.
         * Burkus tells the story that 利休 liked to use a swallow 香合, which he placed on a bucket 水指, mirroring this idea that the swallow would normally sit there.
   * Glass is still fine to use.

===花===

   * Baskets are still a good idea (Mittwer), but also 釣船, wetted-through Bizen, Iga, Namban.

{{  ::chabana_august.png?200  |August 茶花, from Mittwer }}


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| Burnet, Bloodwort         | Wiesenknopf      |  {{::wiesenknopf.jpg?100|}}  |                                                                                               |
| Loosestrife, waterwillow  | Wasserweiderich  |  {{::wasserweiderich.jpg?100|}}   |                                                                                               |
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| Rose of Sharon            | Straucheibisch   |  {{::hibiscus_syriacus.jpg?100|}}  | the iconic 風炉 flower; cut in water or scorch; there's a Basho poem abot a horse eating it, so maybe it's fun to pair it with a ばれい 蓋置 |

===懐石===
   * Use glass for 向付, and maybe a basket for the rice.
   * Instead of 焼物, use a small pumpkin by filling it with minced chicken and steaming that (and then use the insides of the seeds for 橋洗!)
   * New potatoes for 八寸?

   * Sen wants 木槿:

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===御名===
   * 秋の星, also the name of a 天目 茶碗
   * 蜻蛉
   * 一葉, or you could use a 向付 or 蓋置 for this.
   * 宵涼し（よい　すずし）: evening coolness
   * https://chanoyu.world/gomei/gomei-august/

===掛け軸===
   * winds, waterfalls, rivers...

Phrase – 19 – Hobo seifu okosu – step by step, the pure breeze comes

Phrase – 20 – Seifu shuchiku ugokasu – the pure breeze moves the bamboo

Phrase – 21 – Seiryuu kandan nashi – the pure flow has no gaps or breaks

Phrase – 22 – Suijo seiseitaru midori – fresh and verdant green

Phrase – 23 – Denkaku bi ryou o shouzu – the hall gives birth to a faint coolness

Phrase – 24 – Sansui ni seion ari – the mountain waters have a pure sound

Phrase – 25 – Kumon no kaze onozukara suzushi – the breeze through the empty gate is cool

Phrase – 26 – Kumo osamatte sangaku aoshi – the cloud-gathering mountain tops are green

Phrase – 27- Haku un hou ohou ni okoru – the peaks give rise to white clouds

Phrase – 28 – Kumo yuyu mizu sensen – the clouds are majestic and the water babbles

Phrase – 29 – Taki shouka sanzen jyou – the water falls straight down 3,000 jo (1 jo = 10 feet)