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- 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,
御名
These here are a subset from https://issoantea.com/december-seasonal-notes/:
- 年越し（としこし, seeing the old year out）
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
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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