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Camellia Tea Ceremony

For some people the smell of kinmokusei is intrinsically linked to the toilet and more foul smelling places, simply because the flower (with its powerful fragrance) acted as an early and cheap form of air freshenerπŸ’©πŸ‘ƒπŸ˜«πŸŒΏπŸ™Œβœ¨

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Zen toilet at Myoshin-ji.
Edo period toilet.
Tofuku-ji's old 'toilet hall'...a large structure that could 'host' dozens of monks at the same time.
An old style Japanese 'squatting' toilet.
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Camellia Tea Ceremony

There are actually 3 varieties of 'mokusei' (ζœ¨ηŠ€ 'sweet olives'): kinmokusei (ι‡‘ζœ¨ηŠ€ osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus), the less fragrant ginmokusei (ιŠ€ζœ¨ηŠ€ osmanthus fragrans var. fragrans), and the much less common usugimokusei (θ–„ι»„ζœ¨ηŠ€ osmanthus fragrans var. thunbergii).

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Kinmokusei is the most common of the 3 kinds of 'mokusei'.
The less fragrant 'ginmokusei'.
The less common 'usugimokusei'.
Kinmokusei in the grounds of Tenryu-ji.
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