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Motifs
- Chrysanthemum are cool for everything: 釜, 帛紗
- Moon is also good, and with it, wild geese
Microseasons
- 生年と歿年の間露けしや（せいねんと ぼつねんの間 つゆけしや, the interval / between birth and death / heavy with dew; by Tanaka Hiroaki, 1959-2004）. Here 露けし is a seasonal word, as in this season we start to see dew in the mornings as it gets colder during the night.
- 22 IX to 27 IX: 雷乃収声（かみなり すなわち 声を おさむ, thunder lowers its voice). After the autumn equinox, the summer heat dies and summer's thunder gods go to sleep.
懐石
- Flounder (🇩🇪 Flunder, Butt) in autumn it is quite fatty and good for 刺身, or stewed
- 舞茸 mushrooms
- Quince: often candied; or just in a basket to give off a nice aroma. Might be a good idea for a 床 decoration instead of a 香合
花
From Mittwer's book, which is Eulalia, burnet-bloodwort, smartweed, pigeonberry, pink in a Bisk-ware octopus-trapping pot
From Sen's Chadō, which is 木槿.
According to the Chadō Textbook:
- はぎ (Buschklee)
- すすき (Chinaschilf)
- 葛（くず）
- なでしこ / せきちく (Chinesische Nelke)
- おみなえし (Goldbaldrian)
- ふじばかま (Wasserdost, Wasserhanf)
- ききょう (Ballonblume, Chinesische Glockenblume)
- しゅうかいどう (Begonie, Schiefblatt)
- ほととぎす (Japanische Krötenlilie)
- みざまりんどう (Enzian)
- しゅうめいぎく (Herbst-Anemone)
- See also 七草
和菓子
From Sen's Chadō, which is こはぎ 餅 (bush clover, one of the seven autumn grasses)
For 干菓子, it's raw sugar shaped like taro, and like the leaf of it.
