{"product_id":"water-of-the-sky","title":"Water of the Sky - A Dictionary of over 2000 Japanese Rain Words.","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The fundamental nature of reality is that all constituent forms that create the universe are temporal and impermanent. All things are impermanent. So the depiction of that in rain, I just thought, rain is so overlooked.\u003cbr\u003eIt's just so everyday, and yet it's really wondrous if you start looking really, really, really closely at it.” - Miya Ando.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWater of the Sky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich visual dictionary for rain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe words range from prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003emukaame, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor “very fine rain that falls in spring”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the mystical (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebunryūu, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor “rain that splits a dragon's body in half\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and from the minute (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ekisame, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor “raindrops that fall off the leaves and branches of trees”) to the vast (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003etakuu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, or “blessed rain that quenches all things in the universe”).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book presents 100 of these 2,000 drawings of rain accompanied by the full index of 2,000 Japanese words and their approximate English equivalents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Errant Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49045627404473,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/1964\/5113\/files\/542F6507-1C4F-44CA-9679-45394D5F1B9A.jpg?v=1788083842","url":"https:\/\/errantbooks.com\/products\/water-of-the-sky","provider":"Errant Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}