Lesson Blog May 10th, 2025

It started to rain in the morning, and the courtyard of the Shoarai-an was moisturized by the rain.

In May, the tea ceremony kettle is changed from the sunken hearth to the brazier. The way the ladle operates differs from the sunken hearth.

The scroll on the alcove is 薫風自南来 -kunpu minami yori kitaru-. It is followed by the phrase, 殿閣生微涼 -denkaku biryou wo shouzu-. It describes a scene where a refreshing early summer breeze blows through the palace. Tang Dynasty statesman Liu Gongquan composed this poem as a concluding clause to Emperor Wenzong's beginning clause.

The flowers on the alcove is calamus.

For sweets, prepared Hatsu-katsuwo (Minochu at Aichi).