camelliakyoto , to random
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🌸🍵BYE BYE BLOSSOMS🍯😋

there comes a time
even in blossoming Kyōto...
sick of it
或時は花の都にも倦にけり
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1795.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

A little wind and rain, and sakura season draws to a close...but not before we toast the blossoms goodbye.

#Kyoto #Japan #cherryblossoms #京都 #桜 #sakura

Sunset at Keage, where boats would be carried by train track between sections of canal.
Blossoms at Keage.
Nao-san bid the blossoms farewell along the Tenjingawa, where the path runs under sakura trees.

camelliakyoto OP ,
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👃BOOGER BANQUET🥴

Tamaruya's (田丸弥) bite-sized, muscovado flavoured 'hanakuso' (花供曽), take inspiration from a similar sweet sold at Shinnyo-dō (真如堂).
The temple transforms kagami mochi offered at New Year into small rice crackers for Buddha's Birthday (April 8th).

These threads will help explain what exactly kagami mochi (鏡餅) is, and why Buddha's Birthday (花祭り) is important.

🍊Kagami mochi-
https://twitter.com/camelliakyoto/status/1477868988961275904?s=20&t=Z58r61vvvBdY7Nxdqm_qlw
👶Hana Matsuri-
https://twitter.com/camelliakyoto/status/1512223283420094468?s=20&t=Z58r61vvvBdY7Nxdqm_qlw

A muscovado flavoured sweet called 'hanakuso'. It looks like a tiny, beige boulder.
Kagami mochi...large rice cakes topped with a mikan, often displayed as decoration at the New Year.
The main hall of Shinnyo-do, a temple popular with women.

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