Season: December

茶花9月

Flowers for a Tea occasion

Season: December

By Grand Master Fuden-an Sojitsu

Flowers used: Kamohon’ami Camellia (Camellia japonica “Kamohon’ami”)
Winter sweet (Chimonanthus praecox)

Receptacles: Bamboo vase (named Kingyokusei) with double intakes, made by Koshin Sokei to use bamboo from Kokyoji-Temple of Xian

This arrangement was made at the tea ceremony on the night of New Year’s Eve last year.

I put the Kamohon’ami Camellia cut from my garden and picked up winter sweet as well. It is so rare that winter sweet would produce fruit like this. It seems to me as if the fruit on the branch somehow made me feel a set of wintery scenery. This arrangement indeed turns out to be my favorite.