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- It's 風炉 season! Lots of renewing of things:
- Green 蓋置
- Tea picking month:
- 夏切茶 or 夏口切
- Or just freshly picked tea
- 5.5 is Boy's day
- 柏餅
- carps
- iris as symbol
- lots of battle symbols: sword guards, quivers, arrow-notches, spear sheath 建水
花
- Basket containers are great
- Mittwer wants Bog-reed, thistle, evening primrose, spirea, and trumpet honeysuckle Container: Fisherman's creel
- Sen wants chrysanthemum
懐石
- Extensive use of shellfish
- 向付: White fish, salt-brined for 10'; cucumber skin strips, 青のり, わさび.
- 味噌汁: Walnut tofu, knotted green herb
- 椀盛: carp filet with shredded onion
- 八寸: sun-dried fish, broiled; big green beans
お菓子
- 柏餅 and, according to Tsuji, rice cake wrapped in bamboo
- 主菓子 are Karagoromo (Chinese robe) sweets. May is the month of irises in Japan. For these sweets, white-bean paste has been wrapped in rice dough that has been partly tinted a faint purple.
- 干菓子 are Kutsuwa (horse bit) sweets. These sugar cakes are shaped like the old-style bits used for horses in Japan. LOwE LEFT: Tazuna (bridle) cakes. Sugar cakes dyed and twisted to resemble the old-time bridle for a horse.
