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   Camellia Tea Ceremony (camelliakyoto@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 13:33:06 JST Camellia Tea Ceremony

   🐗🔥PIG PROTECTION🌪️🦟

   One of the great joys of summer is taking out the sliding doors and blurring the line between garden and tearoom, relishing the morning cool before it gets too hot.

   But...
   Mosquitoes also love the garden.

   So what to do?🤔

   #Kyoto #京都 #蚊取り線香 #Japan #summer #mosquitoes

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     Camellia Tea Ceremony (camelliakyoto@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 13:33:04 JST Camellia Tea Ceremony

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     It was Ei'ichirō's wife Yuki, in 1895, that suggested he shape the incense into coils.
     It took 7 years to perfect!

     Nowadays katori senkō has become synonymous with a pig-shaped holder called 'kayari buta' (蚊遣り豚 the 'mosquito repelling pig').
     It is deeply evocative of summer.

     #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #mosquitoes #mosquitocoils #summer

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     close to my ear
     a single breeze
     from a mosquito
     只一ッ耳際に蚊の羽かぜ哉
     -Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1793.
     Trans. Ogawa Shinji.

     #茶道 #teaceremony #CamelliaTeaCeremony #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #matcha #summervibes

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     In Japan it's common to see the traditional 'katori senkō' (蚊取り線香) outside homes and in gardens during the summer.

     To combat mosquitoes Ueyama Ei'ichirō (上山英一郎) developed incense sticks in the late 1800s mixed from starch, orange skin, and pyrethrum powder.

     #Japan #katorisenko #蚊取り線香 #mosquitocoil #summer

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