#Tag · Vihāra

Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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🎃HUNGRY FOR HALLOWEEN🐈‍⬛

The last guests leave, the doors are locked, the lights turned low, the staff retire...but something stirs, hungering for another tea😱

horror night-
children eat
too much candy
-Alex Serban (Romania, 2010).

#teahousehorror #Halloween #Japan #ハロウィン #jackolantern #pumpkin #Kyoto #京都

A ghostly apparition in the tearoom. Nao-san loves spooky season.

Pumpkins carved and ready for Halloween.

Across the road the little shrine to Jizo has an offertory box painted with a ghost. You donate money through its mouth.

Nao-san does her best to creep me out, wearing Noh masks about the teahouse.

Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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A selection of jack-o'-lanterns from the last few years.

Can you guess what each is modeled on?🎃🤔

#Halloween #ハロウィン #Japan #jackolantern #pumpkin #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #ジャック・オー・ランタン

Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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Itotatsu (いと達) always puts on a wonderful spread for spooky season. Last year's devilish delights included a monaka 'kuma-san' (クマさん), a white pumpkin (白かぼちゃ), and a spooky kuzuyaki (紫芋と栗の葛焼き - flavoured with murasaki-imo and chestnut🍠💜🌰).

#京都 #Kyoto #wagashi #和菓子 #pumpkins #jackolantern #Halloween

An elegant pumpkin shaped sweet for Halloween (topped with gold leaf!).

A jack'o'lantern inspired kuzuyaki. The sweet is purple to reflect the fact it is flavoured with purple sweet potatoes.

Itotatsu-san busy at work creating an army of bear monaka at his store.

A Halloween themed monaka bear. Itotatsu decorates his well-known bear-shaped wafers (filled with flavoured bean paste) with new designs for festivals and celebrations.

Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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The most common type of higashi use wooden molds called 'kigata' (木型) to create intricate designs in sugar.

Kigata were used to make both smaller, affordable sweets for tea ceremony, and larger, often prohibitively expensive creations for special celebrations or for display.

#higashi #干菓子 #Kyoto #sweets #confections #京都

Dried sweets, designed to be used a decoration for celebrations.

Wooden molds used to create dried sweets... these produce ume blossoms and pine branches.

Wooden molds used to create dried sweets... this produces a pine tree, long a symbol of celebration and longevity.

Wooden molds used to create dried sweets... these produce sweets in the shape of Noh masks.

Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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🦇BATS ABOUT BATS🌕

Generally speaking, tea ceremony uses two types of sweets: higashi (干菓子/乾菓子) and namagashi (生菓子).

As the name suggests, higashi is a type of dry confectionery, whereas namagashi are fresh sweets (typically moist) with a much shorter shelf-life.

#茶道 #teaceremony #Japan #Kyoto #京都 #wagashi #和菓子