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Letters on wabi-sabi, mottainai, and the art of seeing — from a small apartment in Tokyo.
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Tsukimi: How to Look at the Moon
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/tsukimi-how-to-look-at-the-moon
Published: September 20, 2026 13:01
On the harvest moon of the twenty-fifth of September, the nights on either side of it — each one named for the posture of the person waiting — and why Japanese has a word for the night the moon does not come.
A Cloth Named After a Floor
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/a-cloth-named-after-a-floor
Published: September 16, 2026 13:03
On the furoshiki, one knot built to come undone, and the only container in this apartment that stops existing when it is empty.
The Algorithm and the Hermit
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/the-algorithm-and-the-hermit
Published: September 13, 2026 13:02
On three pieces of music that were once rationed to a single hearing, a machine that has never once refused me anything, and what the refusing was doing.
The Beauty of Things That Are Not Yet Begun
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/the-beauty-of-things-that-are-not
Published: September 9, 2026 13:03
On Kenkō's two arrows, the diaries that go on sale in September, and the difference between a thing that is ripening and a thing that is only getting older.
Furusato: A Word for the Place You Cannot Return To
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/furusato-a-word-for-the-place-you
Published: September 6, 2026 13:00
On a Japanese word that English translates as "hometown," and why the translation drops the only ingredient that matters.
Chōmei's Music: Why the Hermit Kept a Lute
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/chomeis-music-why-the-hermit-kept
Published: September 2, 2026 13:00
A fourth letter on the Hōjōki, on the one thing a man who gave up nearly everything refused to give up, and what he did with it.
The Sun Falls Like a Well Bucket
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/the-sun-falls-like-a-well-bucket
Published: August 30, 2026 13:01
On a Japanese proverb for the speed of autumn evenings, and the four weeks in which Tokyo quietly loses an hour of light.
The Shopping Cart I Have Not Emptied
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/the-shopping-cart-i-have-not-emptied
Published: August 26, 2026 13:02
On nine things sitting unbought in an online basket, and why the list of what you did not buy is the more honest inventory.
Things That Make the Heart Beat Faster
https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/things-that-make-the-heart-beat-faster
Published: August 23, 2026 13:02
A thousand-year-old heading, the word that reached English as 'spark joy,' and my own list, kept through one Tokyo summer.