- 栄西忌（えいさい き）on the 5.6, so might be appropriate to use the 大海茶入.
- On 10.6, it's some time-related event, where people vow to be on time
- On 11.6, it's Oribe's death day
Almanac
It's the start of summer, so it's all about giving a feeling of coolness (涼一味、りょういちみ）. Ideas:
- Indigo
- Silver kettle
- Wetted びぜん ceramics (for example, for 花入)
- Or a boat as a 花入
- Use smaller 釜, so you can see the ash form
- つるべ as 水指, or one with a wide mouth
- An insect-related 香合
- Crab for 蓋置
- Flat 茶碗
- Generally, glass items for food, like Baccarat
- And fresh wood, in general
- White and blue chinaware for 懐石
- Salt-あゆ are good for 焼物; maybe summer-duck for にもの or roasted duck for 八寸. Shrimp for むこ付け or fried for 八寸; and of course, aubergine for all (でんがく, てんぷら, pickled with mustard; cucumbers
花
- Mittwer : Lady's slipper, thistle, and loosestrife
- Sen says wild lily
お菓子
- Mizumo no hana sweets. Green-tinted bean paste wrapped in arrowroot dough and folded into a three-sided pyramid.
- Taki senbei (waterfall crackers). Sugar cakes pressed to look like waterfall fowing down. LOWER LEFT: Aokaede (maple bud) sweets. Sugar cakes in the form of new maple leaves in the spring.
