- Two main themes are: the cold winter and the end of the year.
- For the year's end, tidy your physical and social space, bringing in order relationships, but also replacing the paper screens. On 13 XII, you bring 鏡餅 to your teachers.
- For winter, snow, slate, hail are great symbols, as are bare trees and ducks with their heads tucked in.
- In my calendar, I'm continuing November's practising the different ways of the thick tea container (茶入飾 and 盆点, as well as 炭).
Things to do!
- ゆず is in season, and it's common on the winter solstice to take a ゆず bath.
- ゆべし is also something to do this season, then you can serve it as 八寸 in March.
- Also, it's a good time to start candying salsify (or ごぼ, if you have it) for the New Years.
茶事
- 甘酒 in the beginning; with a 火鉢; 煎茶, then 炭 with filling the 釜 because afterwards will be 続き薄茶. 懐石 can include 湯葉 for 向付. Serve steamed sweets.
道具
- 矢筈
- 寒月 茶碗
- 霰釜
- 暦 茶碗
御名
These here are a subset from issoan:
- 年越し（としこし, seeing the old year out）
Scrolls
I like the following:
- 鶴飛千尺雪 （つるは とぶ せんじゃく の ゆき, the crane flies — a thousand feet of snow)
- 冬嶺孤松秀 (とう れい こしょう ひ いつ, on a winter hill, a lone pine stands still）
- 紅炉一点雪 (こう ろう いってん の ゆき, above the heart, a single snowflake）, which I actually have 😻
- 松樹千年翠, which I got, too 😻
花
- Mittwer suggests Witch-hazel and Judith camellia
- Container: Ash-glazed Iga pottery
- Sen again suggests camelia
Resources
✅ issoan
Left to check: * 花 (here, Mittwer's book is great). * 御名 * 和菓子 * 懐石 * suitable 道具 and 軸
* Mittwer's book for flowers * Sen's book for お菓子 and flowers * Almanac for 道具 * Tsuji's book for 懐石 * 72 seasons application