“Yomo” April 2021, 22nd edition.

spring is in its infancy

As you all know, The Pillow Book

says that the sky before sunrise is the most beautiful in spring.

It’s true, if you ask me.

Spring means cherry blossoms! But for us modern people
We modern people, who think of spring as cherry blossoms, may not be able to create poems about the four seasons that surpass those of Sei Shonagon.

If you listen to Hill Climb’s “Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter” after reading the Pillow Book, it sounds so cheesy that it makes you dizzy.

Oh, I don’t mean to disrespect hill-climbing, so I’m sorry if hill-climbers are offended.

Spring is the season of encounters and partings

I don’t have any particular memories, but

I have a brother who is one year older than me.

When I was in school, my brother was a very naughty boy.

He wore a suicide suit to his graduation ceremony at junior high school.
It was funny to watch him get beaten up by the education teacher.

The teacher said, “It’s your graduation day.
I’m going to give you a break for today, so get dressed.
I thought the teacher was going to give me a break.

But he beat me up.

It was a famous story in our hometown that a picture of my brother in a suicide suit was published in a local newspaper at that time.

Personally, I don’t think that spring is a time of meeting and parting.
I don’t think this is fate, but…

I don’t think this is fate, but I think that daily encounters are fate and a miracle.

And that’s how I met Art House.

And there are people I met because I met Art House.

Without it, I wouldn’t be writing this book right now.

The accumulation of such small miracles may have led me to my destiny.
It may be that the accumulation of such small miracles leads me to my destiny.

Spring is the first day of the year

Hmm…

Sei Shonagon is amazing.