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| - | * Prepare the 大炉 this year! | + | ===Personal to-dos=== |
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| - | * Almanac, Ulrich and http:// | + | |
| - | * Wagashi (google + book + my own recipe) | + | |
| - | * CNY Textbook | + | |
| - | * Haiku | + | |
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| - | ===茶事=== | + | |
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| - | ===Toys=== | + | |
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| - | * 曙 棗 (the red one 淡々斎 liked) | + | |
| - | * 誰が袖棚, | + | |
| - | * Fujiyo said: January, new year’s decorations…utensils for shinto ritual, kagura shinto musical dance.. | + | |
| - | Tied in circle with long willow branches | + | |
| - | 島台、手桶水 (teoke) decorated with しめ縄 sacred rice straw ropes.. | + | |
| - | relatively big kettle with happy inspiration such as its name is 万歳, or the surface is decorated with 松竹梅 patterns. | + | |
| - | Lid rest such as plum blossoms patterns or shape of 突羽根 (it's a flower petal, tsukubane, it’s shuttlecock for traditional battledore) | + | |
| - | Flashy? January | + | |
| ===Tea Rites=== | ===Tea Rites=== | ||
| - | * Winter solstice is on the 21 / 23 XII, so technically, it is already spring and the days get longer. Yet, the great cold, 大寒(だいかん), usually around the 22 I, is still ahead. | + | * [[dango|まゆ団子]] on the 14.1. |
| - | * On New Year's Day, 井華水(せいか すい)or 若水(わか みず), which is water drawn between 0200 and 0400 (the time of the 虎) and is considered especially pure, is drawn. | + | * Winter solstice is on the 21 / 23 XII, so astrologically, it is already spring and the days get longer. Yet, the great cold, {{ruby|大寒|だいかん}}, usually around the 22 I, is still ahead. |
| - | * Then, this is used to make 大福茶(おおぶくちゃ), which has symbolism that ties it to happiness and long life and is a mix of 煎茶(せんちゃ), 昆布(こんぶ) | + | * On New Year's Day, {{ruby|井華水|せいかすい}} or {{ruby|若水|わか みず}}, which is water drawn between 0200 and 0400 (the hour of the tiger) and is considered especially pure, is drawn. |
| - | * If there' | + | * If there' |
| - | * When people are invited for a [[yobanashi|夜話]](よ ばなし), | + | * Then there' |
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| - | ===花=== | + | ===Symbols and toys=== |
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| + | * Apart from that, the 誰が袖棚 is not a bad idea, through the association of 着物袖 and 梅 scent. | ||
| - | {{ ::narcissus.png? | + | * Good symbols are |
| + | * 松 (for long life, such as 老松, 唐松) | ||
| + | * 曙 (like the 淡々斎好み red 棗) | ||
| + | * Willows tied into a circle | ||
| + | * 島台, red and white, the Seven Gods of Fortune, who live on {{ruby|蓬莱|ほらい}} mountain, and come with a {{ruby|宝船|たからぶね}}, | ||
| + | * {{ruby|寒月|かんげつ}}, | ||
| + | * {{ruby|初草|はつ くさ}} is a 名物 茶入 that is completely plain brown. It reminds us of the brown grass in the melting snow, that bears the promise of rebirth. See [[wabi|侘び]]. KM said (I 24) it would be better to use {{ruby|雪間草|ゆき ま くさ}} as 御銘, though. I did an entire [[restricted:record|茶事]] with that theme! | ||
| + | * In the same vein, one student used {{ruby|早蕨|さわらび}} in I 24, which is some rolled up, edible fern that represents spring. | ||
| + | * {{ruby|雲海|うんかい}} for a 茶碗, with the clouds that bring rain and thus life, and the sea that brings forth all. Because the bowl is something that carries the present of the tea, it is quite suitable. | ||
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| - | ===Symbols and 御名=== | + | |
| - | * Most of it is from [[http:// | + | |
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| - | * Red and white, the Seven Gods of Fortune, who live on 蓬莱(ほらい)mountain, | + | |
| - | * 寒月(かんげつ), | + | |
| - | * 初草(はつ くさ)is a 名物 茶入 that is completely plain brown. It reminds us of the brown grass in the melting snow, that bears the promise of rebirth. See [[wabi|侘び]]. Miya said (I 24) it would be better to use 雪間草(雪 ま 草). | + | |
| - | * In the same vein, Kaoru used 早蕨(さわらび)in I 24, which is some rolled up, edible fern that represents spring. | + | |
| - | * 雲海(うんかい)for a 茶碗, with the clouds that bring rain and thus life; and the sea that brings forth all. Because the bowl is something that carries the present of the tea, it is quite suitable. | + | |
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| - | I guess anything with 初 is fine. Miya suggested I use 初笑い, for example. | + | |
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| - | ===掛け軸(かけじく)=== | + | |
| - | * 寿山福海(じゅ さん ふく かい) | + | |
| - | * 無事是黄人(ぶ じ これ きん にん) | + | |
| - | * 花開萬国春(はな ひらく ばんこく の はる) | + | |
| - | ===俳句(はいく)=== | + | ===Poems=== |
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| - | ===和菓子=== | ||
| - | * 花弁餅(はなびらもち) | ||
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| - | * 主菓子 of course is 花弁餅! | + | ===花=== |
| + | * Mittwer suggests narcissus in bronze: | ||
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| + | * 千 recommends Camellia bud and ornamental wild greenery in a two-tiered bar bamboo container with a gold-on-black lacquer design tortoises and waves on the inside: | ||
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| - | * 干菓子 could be // | ||
| - | These sweets, similar to ribbon candy served in the West, are made of strips of sugar cake that have been dyed red and white, the traditional congratulatory colors in Japan, and tied in knots before they harden. | ||
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