Camellia Tea Ceremony🌞🌿SUMMER REFLECTIONS🪞☺️
looking into
the newly polished mirror
the servant faints
磨ぎたての鏡びっくり下女気絶
-anon
For a very brief moment each year Kyūtei Omuro (旧邸御室), an old villa close to Ninna-ji, is open to the public.
It is famed for a table!🤔🪞🌿
In the villa's sitting room is a low table made from a single piece of Chinese quince.
The polished surface perfectly captures the reflection of the lush green garden outside, bringing the cool shade of the trees into the room.
drinking tea alone
on the month's first day...
green bamboo blinds
一人呑茶も朔日ぞ青簾
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶) 1817.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.
Constructed in 1945, no-one is quite sure who commissioned the Kyūtei Omuro (旧邸御室) or what purposed it served.
The sukiya-style (数寄屋造り) mansion sits in a sprawling 1655m2 parcel of land, and given its proximity to Ninna-ji (仁和寺) many believe there was a connection.
