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#camellia

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

winter wind-
camellia blossoms have fixed
their make-up
木がらしや椿は花の身づくろひ
-Kobayashi Issa, 1824.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

Although predominantly considered a winter plant, camellias can be seen blooming for a large part of the year (from late fall to mid-spring)🙌

#camellia#椿#Japan
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Camellia flowers inspire a mind-boggling number of traditional sweets.

The most famous, and one of the oldest (an early version featuring in 'The Tale of Genji'), is 'tsubaki-mochi' (椿餅). Camellia leaves adorn a sticky rice cake, but unlike sakura-mochi the leaves act as decoration only.

A sweet inspired by red camellia flowers.
Tsubaki-mochi are rice cakes adorned with camellia leaves.
A camellia inspired sweet sold during plum blossom season at Jonan-gu. It has a slightly octagonal shape, mirroring a famous amulet sold at the shrine.
Delicate sweets modeled on the kind of camellia flowers found on tea bushes. It is very unusual to see tea bushes in bloom as they are usually carefully cultivated.
#camellia#椿#Kyoto
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