Mottainai. Ma. Danshari. Japanese words that carry entire worldviews. I'm a Tokyo-born writer and former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid — and say it, carefully, in English.
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All My Mother Taught Me About Kintsugi Was That It Gives You a Rash
After dinner, my mother was always mending something. Sometimes clothes, a sweater, sometimes a broken rice bowl.
She had once worked at a tailor’s, so of course she made clothes, and she also sat down at the sewing machine to change the s...
I Have Never Once Said Ganbatte to My Sister
When my nephew was still a baby, my sister said something I have kept ever since.
“He doesn’t roll over,” she said. “So it isn’t dangerous.”
She meant sleep. A baby who can turn onto his stomach can end up face down in the night, and pare...
Nobody in My House Says Ikigai. I Say a Smaller Word at Breakfast.
My mornings start with breakfast. I have one rule I keep for myself and want my sons to grow up with: you eat something before the day begins. So there is rice, often shaped into balls so it is easier to eat, and a dish with some protein in...
We Barely Talk at Home. In the Car, We Keep Time.
On a un no kokyu（阿吽の呼吸） — the first sound and the last, the two stone guardians at the gate, and the long drives where my husband and I stop needing to talk.
The Sunday letter comes every other week and is for paid subscribers. Monday and...
The Floor Where I Take Off My Shoes Has a Zen Name
Every day I come home, open the door, and step out of my shoes in the genkan, 玄関。 It is the small square floor just inside the front door of a Japanese house, a step lower than the rest, where the shoes pile up and the umbrellas lean. I hav...
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How you speak. How you move. How you listen. In Japan, each has invisible rules no one wrote down. I'm a writer in Tokyo, a former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid and say it, carefully, in English.
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