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🌞🥤'RIKKA' REFRESHMENTS🌊🏖️

'Rikka' (立夏) is the beginning of summer in the traditional calendar. It's marked by 'frogs singing' (蛙始鳴 May 5th-9th), 'worms surfacing' (蚯蚓出 10th-14th), bamboo shoots sprouting (竹笋生 15th-20th), and more sweets than you can shake a stick at🙌
#立夏 #rikka #summer

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Camellia Tea Ceremony May 11

running messages, wagtail
for the shrine's god?
irises
鶺鴒は神の使かかきつばた
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1810.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

the long skinny snake's
Shinto shrine...
irises
細長い蛇の社や杜若
-1818.

#Kyoto #irises #Japan #京都 #菖蒲 #haiku

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Camellia Tea Ceremony May 12

After the shock of losing both the emperor and its status as capital in 1868, Kyōto embarked on a series of prestige projects to help revive trade, tourism and its damaged ego.

Heian Jingū, the Lake Biwa Canal, the geisha dances and the Jidai Matsuri were all born at this time.