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On Autumn in Japan
Here, Autumn starts in August, rather than the September Equinox. It’s September now, but the temperatures still hover in the 80s, thunderstorms still threaten my daily sushi pickup, and cicadas still squawk through the trees like tortured squirrels.
The Winter Haiku Forecast
“Writing shit about new snow for the rich is not art.” – Kobayashi Issa (trans. Robert Hass)
On Seasons, or: On Poets Taking Over the Japanese Meteorological Service
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – The Great Gatsby There’s a central body in Japan that declares the coming and going of rain. That means that there is a weather bureaucracy, and someone stamps … Continue reading
This Japanese Life. 