Catch the soul of the seasons
By means of flowers, poems and wagashi …
In a e-book to really feel season adjustments and experiment what Nagori (名残) and Natsukashii (懐かしい) are.
Nagori is nostalgic emotions about issues or conditions that ended or that’s ending.
Natsukashii can be nostalgic emotions about comfortable reminiscences which might heat your (the) coronary heart once you remind them (when remind them).
Haiku, Japanese poems comprise a kigo (季語), a phrase that refers to season adjustments.
“A second
In life’s brevity
Autumn sundown”
“Softly falls the sunshine
Of Autumn’s mellowing solar
Throughout fields and hills”
As a Kigo in Haiku …
Flowers for aromas and colours of autumnal panorama,
Wagashi (japanese sweets) and tea for flavors, of warmness of early (初) autumn and, of frost and chilly of mid- (仲) and late (晩) autumn.
Minimalist drawings of wagashi, wild flowers photographs and brief (largely japanese) poems paired with singular and distinctive teas, to catch the essence and temper of the autumn season …
That’s my challenge …
Very removed from excellent, made with numerous humilty in entrance of the immensity, beautifulness and fineness of the Japanese seasons’ philosophy …
However, made with sincerity, lot of ardour and keen of discovering and sharing with all people, the great world, additionally wild and minuscule, of japanese seasons …
Greater than a documentary and informational papers, a comfortable proposition and suggestion of what my autumn emotions appear by my senses, to permit everybody to experiment its autumnal emotions and let be free and inventive, what flavors, aromas and pictures of the autumn, every one likes.
Nonetheless, if somebody is in search of and interested by japanese seasonal (hello)story and tradition info, I might be so comfortable to share with everybody, the books and web sites I used, which inform so nicely and actually higher than me, the story of japanese philosophy concerning the significance of seasons and the impermanence (無常) of issues.
And as a form and mild want, don’t hesitate and really feel actually welcome, at anytime, to share with all of us what every one’s fall season soul appears to be like like …
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