ホモテナシ

• 名残の茶事（なごり）: saying goodbye to 風呂 and the last leaves in the tea jar. Massively 詫び.
  • Simple 掛物（かけ　もの）such as letters are preferable over heavy calligraphies.
  • Black straw ashes can be used in the 風呂.
  • Use up 香 from summer, so a mix of sandalwood, aloes wood etc.
  • Avoid fresh bamboo for chopsticks etc, instead use the ones that were used at the beginning of 風呂 and have faded.
  • Make sure to not make things look shabby: To be simple is good, but to make it too simple is bad (利休）
• 中置き（なかおき）. Slender 水差し to the left of 風呂. Particularly fitting might be a 水差し with pictures of a goose.
• 破れ風呂（やぶれ　ぶろ） or 欠き風呂（かき　ぶろ）

* 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.

• 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
• Geese are said to be returning with letters.

• 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)

• sei fu ban ri akinagorinochaji