- 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（かがみ もち) 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, we're practising the different ways of the thick tea container (茶入飾, 唐物 and 和巾; even though the latter is actually a tea-点前 and should be grouped with 茶通箱; or be done in August).
Season
- 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
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
和菓子
- 主菓子 by Sen: Kazabana (snowflake) sweets. Gently falling snowflakes resemble flower petals being scattered by the wind. A steamed sweet filled with red-bean paste and stamped with the design of a snowflake.
- 干菓子 by Sen: Yukiwa (snowflake) sweets. Sugar cakes pressed into the form of snowflakes. LOWER LEFT: Sasamusubi (bamboo-grass knot) sweets. Along mountain paths in the winter, bamboo grass can be seen beneath the snow. These sugar cakes are shaped and colored to resemble leaves of bamboo grass tied in knots.
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