The Bird That Eats What Would Kill You On kujaku, and a feather that contains its own darkness — and transforms it Look closely at a peacock’s tail feather. At the center of each eye: a darkness. A deep, absorbing black, ringed by iridescent blue, then green, then bronze. The eye does not reflect light…
The Flower Everyone Recognizes, Differently On sakura, and what it means to love something precisely because it will not stay Outside Japan, the cherry blossom is admired. It appears on packaging, on tourist posters, in the Instagram feeds of springtime travelers. It is beautiful, unmistakably Japanese, a symbol of something softly exotic. Inside Japan, the…
