Seasons Higurashi at Dusk: The Threshold That Listens
At dusk, the evening cicada sounds from the grove across the lane, and indoors edges clarify as quiet takes hold.From ce...
Seasons
Seasons reads the year where weather and calendar meet daily use: winter shimo that cracks once under a step and vanishes at first light, wet sudare after rain that slows view and air along an engawa, and an Obon evening whose lanterns and smoke mark a quiet return. Each note begins from such a sign and names brief adjustments for that day—when to open or close, where to air or shade, what to lift or lower, how to portion heat or cool between steps—so practice follows the season as time and materials meet in use. The aim is steadiness rather than display: entries stay brief and practical, place each note in the calendar, and say what to do just before and after a change, so ways stay open, work stays clean, and places settle as the year turns.
Seasons 
Seasons The Shimo That Vanishes: Winter’s Quiet Morning
Shimo arrives before the sun, laying a thin white over the ground. On colder mornings, shimo-bashira rise from the soil and, under a single step, give one brief crack. As light spreads, the ice withdraws into air, leaving no record—only a hush over the earth.
Seasons The Sway of Wet Sudare: Light and Kokoro After Rain
After the rain, reed sudare on a Japanese engawa filter the light, holding a quiet where Kokoro waits in the softened glow.
Seasons The Kei-seki That Holds the Rain: Kokoro’s Stillness in a Japanese Garden Path After Rain
After rain, a path of tobi-ishi draws the gaze to a weathered kei-seki, its moss-darkened surface holding water and quiet with Kokoro, until the breeze carries it away.
Seasons The Weight of Rain: Listening to the Tatami with Kokoro After a Storm
After the storm, the tatami holds more than the scent of rain. It keeps a quiet presence—something Kokoro hears without sound or reason.
Seasons Obon in Japan: Guiding Spirits Home with Light and Smoke
A quiet evening in Japan. Lantern light sways, incense drifts upward, and generations meet without words. Obon is where light and smoke guide Kokoro to welcome spirits home.