It’s the first day of October today.    Here, I send you wild flowers for you .

October, in Haiku world, it is the last month of autumn yet it is one of the most colorful months of all seasons.   It’s the golden harvest season, leaves are changing colors, wild flowers galore and migrant birds are coming (or going).  In old lunar calendar of Japan, it is called “Naga-tsuki (long month)”, that means, the month of longer nights (to enjoy beautiful moon).    

Rikyu (152-15910), the most influential Tea Master who perfected the Way of Tea.               Rokyu said:  A tea room must be peaceful and quiet so that only the “sound of wind through pine trees (boiling water for tea)” should be heard, and a single vase of wild flowers to be arranged in the room as if they are in the wild and they should live only a day.  It is the Way to appreciate the moment –  that is, in fact, the essence of Haiku.