=====October===== * Clear sky, fresh air. Mountains, wild flowers. Insects and crickets. Harvest time. Dew. Geese returning home with letters. * Don't forget I have the beautiful makie trays that might be great for hassun here! * Order 炉 charcoal and other refreshed 道具. ====道具==== * https://kyoto-miki.shop-pro.jp/?pid=171048761 ====CNY==== * 名残の茶事(なごり): saying goodbye to 風炉 and the last leaves in the tea jar. Massively 詫び. Lots of lovingly repaired objects. * This time broken things can be used, like a battered 風炉 or a broken vase to remind the guest of the impermanence of things (Ulrich X 17) * //Make sure to not make things look shabby: To be simple is good, but to make it too simple is bad// (利休) * Simple 掛物(かけ もの)such as letters are preferable over heavy calligraphies. * 清風萬里秋(せい ふ ばん り あき)still suitable * Use up 香 from summer, so a mix of sandalwood, aloes wood etc. * Avoid fresh bamboo for chopsticks etc, instead use the ones that were used at the beginning of 風炉 and have faded. * 中置き(なかおき). Slender 水差 to the //left// of 風炉. Particularly fitting might be a 水差 with pictures of a goose, maybe even with a tied letter as handle 😍 * For Urasenke, at least; the Almanac suggests that because it's so cumbersome, bring it in only when needed. I quite like the idea. * 大板, 五行棚 or even 長板 * Black straw ashes can be used in the 風炉. * 破れ風呂(やぶれ, やつれ ぶろ) or 欠き風呂(かき ぶろ) * 一粒万倍 棗 quite good ^ 漢字 ^Japanese ^ English ^ | 沸く音の\\ 時雨を風炉の\\ 名残かな | わく おと の\\ しぐれ を 風炉 の\\ なごり かな | The boiling of the 釜\\ sounds like a shower of rain\\ at a farewell tea for 風炉 | ====御名==== * https://chanoyu.world/gomei/gomei-october/ * kinshu (autumn brocade) * bansho (evening bell) * 末枯れ(うら がれ). Withering of the ends (of autumn grasses). Often used in poetry. ====花==== * Mittwer's book, which is Okera and begonia {{ ::okera.png?400 |}} * Sen's Chadō, which is chrysanthemum: {{ ::chrysanthemum_bamboo.png?400 |}}