ホモテナシ

• https://chanoyu.world/gomei/gomei-october/

• kinshu (autumn brocade)
• bansho (evening bell)
• 末枯れ（うら　がれ）. Withering of the ends (of autumn grasses). Often used in poetry.

• insects: crickets

• yuzu and kuri
• kuri-kinton / kuri shibori (http://blog.wagashi-net.de/2009/12/kuri-shibori-wagashi/)
• roasted chestnuts

• nakaoki (with slender mizusashi on left)
• with oita or gogyodana (five elements) (https://nihonjinron.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/gogyo-dana/)
  • https://atelierarkmary.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/tea-ceremony-lesson-in-october-%E4%BA%94%E8%A1%8C%E6%A3%9A%EF%BC%88gogyodana%EF%BC%89%E5%A4%A7%E6%B4%A5%E8%A2%8B-otsubukuro/
• most wabi month (3 aspects: simple, unpretentious beauty; imperfect, irregular beauty; austere, stark beauty)
• lots of lovingly repaired objects

Mi wataseba hana mo momiji mo nakarikeri ura no tomaya no aki no yugure

As I look around, no flowers or colored leaves, at the seashore, a thatched hut stands alone in the autumn dusk.

• There is a nostalgic lingering feeling of farewell. This is called nagori.

• sei fu ban ri aki