👋🌿WELCOMING SPRING🐦🎶

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

A fine snow falls about Myōshin-ji's Lecture Hall.

#Myoshinji #妙心寺 #snow #snowday #snowfall #zen #Kyoto

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

It's lucky that ume don't mind the snow because Kyōto has been enjoying more than a few flurries of late.

Kameya Shigehisa's 'ume ichirin' (梅一輪) depicts a delicate ume blossom and vivid fruit. The sweet's name alludes to a famous haiku by Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪)...
#京都

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

one plum blossom
brings us just one more
step to the warmth

梅一輪
一輪ほどの
暖かさ

-Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪 1654-1707).
Trans. Gabi Greve.

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #plumblossoms #umeblossoms #梅 #和菓子 #生菓子 #spring #haiku

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

The Randen (嵐電) tram trundles through snowfall on the way to Kitano-Hakubaichō from Ryōanji station (closest to our Garden Teahouse).

#嵐電 #tram #snow #Kyoto #京福電気鉄道

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

Offering colour at winter's end, it was believed that daffodils, camellias, wintersweet and Japanese apricots were at their most fragrant when it snowed.

Collectively known as the '4 Friends of the Snow', the 'setchū-no-shiyū' (雪中四友) were a popular subject for Chinese painters.

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

A winter wonderland within the walls of Tōji-in.

#Tojiin #等持院 #Kyoto #京都 #snow #snowfall #winterwonderland

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

Today's afternoon tea has a decidedly Welsh feel to it (naturally making me yearn for Welsh Cakes and Bara Brith🥲).

Kameya Shigehisa's (亀屋重久) 'suisen' (水仙 'daffodil') would make a perfect St David's Day (聖デイヴィッドの日 - March 1st) accompaniment.
#Wales #Kyoto #和菓子

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

Snow adds another layer of meaning to the dry landscape garden at Tōji-in.

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@camelliakyoto beautiful

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@camelliakyoto beautiful