fallen leaves

秋は来ぬ　紅葉は宿に　ふりしきぬ　道ふみ分けて　とふ人はなし 　(よみびとしらず,「古今和歌集」)


"Autumn has come, my garden is covered with fallen leaves, nobody wades through a pile of fallen leaves to my house", author unknown in "The Kokin Wakashu".

A female writer composed this poem. Her lover might have had a change of mind. He didn't come to her anymore. When I read this poem for the first time, I had a different image of it because she stated firmly. I thought a reclusive person wrote this poem.

photo：KYOTOdesign

Fukiyose(吹き寄せ)

These dried confections represent drifted fallen leaves of trees such as a ginkgo, a maple and a pine. There is also an acorn.

The leaves on the ginkgo trees along Gaien-dori in Tokyo have been colored. Fallen gingko nuts that was run over by a car smell ripe, but they are delicious.

Icho(銀杏)

This is nerikiri(a mixture of sweet white bean paste and soft cakes of pounded rice).

Icho(銀杏)

This is yokan(hardened bean paste by kanten).