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👃THE SCENT OF AUTUMN🍂 I wish Mastodon had Smell-O-Vision, because Kyōto is blanketed in the wonderful fragrance of kinmokusei (金木犀) that I'd love to share with you. Just outside the teahouse there's a giant kinmokusei bush🥰 #kinmokusei #金木犀 #Kyoto #京都 #CamelliaGardenTeahouse #teaceremony 🍵🏖️TEA ON THE EDGE🍃🌄 With each new outdoor tea ceremony, Nao-san gets a little more daring...she's even expressed a desire for some sort of bungee jump-tea combo in the future (time to start Crowdfunding🤔). For autumn's expedition, tea making on a cliff edge😵💫 #Japan #野点 #Wakayama #和歌山 #cliffedge #teaceremony #茶道 #matcha #抹茶 It was a blustery day at 'Bandoko-teien' (番所庭園), a beautifully manicured garden landscaped atop a stretch of cliff. The promontory, which juts out into Wakayama Bay, has long been known as the 'nose of the Bansho' (番所の鼻)...'bansho' or 'bandoko' (番所) means 'guardhouse'👀 #Bandokoteien #番所庭園 #Japan #Wayakama #和歌山 #和歌山県 #野点 #teaonthego #teaceremony 💦TRAVERSING THE RAPIDS🚣♂️ The famous poet Susukida Kyūkin (薄田泣菫 d.1945), upon completing his first major collection 'The Departing Spring' (ゆく春), bound the originals in a koto string, weighed them with stones, and tossed them to the water god in the depths of the Hozu River. The Hozugawa Kudari (保津川下り lit. 'Down the Hozu River') takes 300,000 visitors a year through the Hozu Gorge (保津峡). #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #Hozugawa #HozugawaKudari #保津川下り #保津峡 #Arashiyama 💦THE MEDICINE BUDDHA'S LOTUSES🪷 dew from a lotus- When his consort fell deathly sick in 680, Emperor Tenmu (天武天皇) ordered the construction of Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) as a prayer for her recovery. The emperor's act of devotion worked, and his consort not only survived, but went on to succeed him as Empress Jitō (持統天皇 645-703). Yakushi-ji originally stood beneath Mt. Miminashi in Kashihara (耳成山)/橿原), site of the then capital, Fujiwara-kyō (藤原京 694-710). 🥤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. 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'). 🌧️🟣HYDRANGEA🔵🌿 In early summer hydrangeas begin to bloom, their many petalled flower heads bursting into life like exploding rockets in a miniature fireworks display. these hydrangeas- on the head mound In hanakotoba (花言葉), the Japanese language of flowers, hydrangeas carry the meaning of 'patience' and 'cool-headedness', but this was not always the case. #Japan #Kyoto #hydrangea #ajisai #紫陽花 #hanakotoba #languageofflowers |
Gregory's Server
telling of autumn,
the scent of
kinmokusei
秋告げる香りはなってキンモクセ
-Saeko Takada (高田さえこ).
As autumn deepens the fragrance of sweet osmanthus, harbinger of Kyōto's finest season, gently hangs in the air.
#Kyoto #Japan #kinmokusei #金木犀 #京都 #sweetosmanthus #Tenryuji #Arashiyama