Listen, I’m not saying the ancients were right about Daisen. Despite all the age-old warnings, I doubt that Kagutsuchi, Shinto god of fire, himself dwells
Category: nature
The Bittersweetness of Things
‘If the cherry blossoms lasted six months, nobody would love them’. This sentence1 lies close to the heart of Japanese culture. Right now, the cherry
I Guess the Time of Eternity
It was one of the old wild places. The Shibaki River hurtled down cliffs and over rocks unobserved, through the gorge it had created over
The Worlds Outside 