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-   * According to lunar calendar, 5 II is beginning of spring, but it is still very cold. So this contrast is what makes February special. +===Personal to-dos=== 
-   * 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? +   * Install my jizai! 
-   * 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'favorite [[wabi|侘び]] poem about the grasses. +   * Make kensui for 茶箱 
-   * 利休 memorial day on 28 II, but it is usually celebrated in March+ 
 +===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'favourite [[wabi|侘び]] poem about the grasses. 
 +   * 利休 Memorial Day on 28 II, but it is usually celebrated in March
  
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-===お菓子=== 
-   * 紅梅(こうばい)(on the picture is 霜紅梅, which is dusted with frost) 
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-   * 未開紅(みかい こう), the unopened red 
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-   * 雪の梅, covered in white. Preferred by Ennousai. 
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-   * 夜の梅, type of youkan in which large sweet beans are mixed in to hint at the smell of plums in the darkness. 
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-   * 鶯餅(うぐいす もち), looks like the bush warbler. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVFrguBJ48c&lc=UghG3LQ22adyhHgCoAEC|recipe]]. 
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-   * Sen's 主菓子 is //Umegoromo// (plum robe) sweets. In Japan, although trees may still be laden with snow, plum blossoms appear in February, holding the promise of spring. These sweets, decorated with a plum-blossom design, are made of rice dough with a filling of strained red-bean paste. 
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-   * His 干菓子 are //Otafuku// sweets. Ground soybeans and sugar are mixed and pressed into a mold to produce this image of a happy but plain-looking woman with enormous cheeks. She is traditionally called Otafuku. LOWER LEFT: Neji-ribo sweets. Sugar cakes are tinted and twisted to represent the pull ropes on bells at Shinto shrines. 
-February is the first month of the lunar new year, so congratulatory colors and symbols are once again used. 
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