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- According to lunar calendar, 5 II is beginning of spring, but it is still very cold. So I 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?
- 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 poem about the plum blossoms struggling through the winter cold that Soshitsu XV finds fitting to this season.
- 利休 memorial day on 28 II, but it is usually celebrated in March
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掛け物
- 紅炉上一点雪 （こう ろ じょう いってん の ゆき）. One snowflake on the hot embers. Meaning that on the hot embers of the Zen mind, all delusions will disappear without trace like a snowflake. 紅炉 seems also be good for a 茶杓.
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- 袖の香, sode no ka, smell from kimono sleeve?
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花
- 梅（うめ or ばい）, of course
お菓子
- 紅梅（こうばい）(on the picture is 霜紅梅, which is dusted with frost)
- 未開紅（みかい こう）, the unopened red
- 雪の梅, covered in white. Preferred by Ennousai.
- 夜の梅, type of youkan in which large sweet beans are mixed in to hint at the smell of plums in the darkness.
- 鶯餅（うぐいす もち）, looks like the bush warbler. recipe.
