🥤THE SOLSTICE🌞 'Geshi' (夏至), the 'summer solstice',...

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🥤THE SOLSTICE🌞

'Geshi' (夏至), the 'summer solstice', marks a period of purification in Japan.

Now that the first half of the year has passed thanks are given, and prayers made that the second half (beginning with fiercely hot months) will be healthy and misfortune free.

#Japan #solstice #summersolstice #Kyoto #京都 #夏至

Nao-san relaxes at Ryoan-ji's famous 'zen' garden.

'Minazuki' is a traditional sweet enjoyed in summer. A triangle slice of almost translucent rice cake is topped with sweet beans...it is said to resemble a chip of ice and thus helps cool people during the fierce hot months.

A delicate purple flower known as 'self-heal'.

Natsumikan is a summer dessert. An orange is scooped out and the juice used in making a jelly that is then poured back into the fruit shell as serving dish.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

In the traditional Japanese calendar June 21st-26th is 'Natsukarekusa karuru' (乃東枯), 'Self-heal withers'.

This is part of the June 21st-July 6th micro season known simply as 'Geshi' (夏至 'Summer Solstice').

#Japan #Kyoto #夏至 #SummerSolstice #京都 #solstice #selfheal

Nao-san enjoys the garden at our teahouse.

Natsukarekusa is known as 'self-heal' in English.

Prunella vulgaris, aka the common self-heal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter's herb, brownwort or blue curls.

21 June at 1:12 | Open on mastodon.social

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