===Personal to-dos===
   * Install my jizai!
   * Make kensui for 茶箱

===February in general===
   * According to lunar calendar, 5 II is beginning of spring, but it is still freezing. So this contrast is what makes February special.
   * It's also the month of 節分（せつぶん）, where evil demons are cast out and luck is invited in - similar to Calandamarz and heaps of other spring rites.
   * Poetic name is 如月（きさらぎ）, literally //like the moon//, but also bears the meaning of //rebirth// or //regeneration//. There's a [[hakuin|poem]] about the plum blossoms struggling through the winter cold that Soshitsu XV finds fitting to this season; and of course 利休's favourite [[wabi|侘び]] poem about the grasses.
   * 利休 Memorial Day on 28 II, but it is usually celebrated in March

===道具===
   * Good time to use [[chawan|筒茶碗]].
   * Large [[kama|釜]], such as 面取釜（めんとり）, 雷声（らいせい）or 野溝（のみず）.
 
===掛け物===
   * 紅炉上一点雪　（こう　ろ　じょう　いってん　の　ゆき）. One snowflake on the hot embers. Meaning that on the hot embers of the Zen mind, all delusions will disappear without trace like a snowflake. 紅炉 seems also be good for a 茶杓.

===御名===
   * https://chanoyu.world/gomei/gomei-february/
   * http://urasenkechado.blogspot.com/2014/02/gomei-for-february.html
   * https://texaschanoyu.wordpress.com/gomei/march/
   * 袖の香, sode no ka, smell from kimono sleeve?

===点前===
  * [[dairo|大炉]]

===花===
   * 梅（うめ or ばい）, of course
   * Mittwer sais Sarishu and camellia Container: Korean glazed pottery with animal-shaped ears

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   * Sen sais Red camellia in a gourd-shaped low Seto-ware container hung on the wall in the  tokonoma.

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