Unfinished
‘’You understand a place only when you have seen it in all seasons’’. That’s what Miku told us while teaching us how to dye with indigo in a tiny Tohoku mountain village . Wanting to know the 4 seasons of Minamisanriku, she quit her job in Osaka and moved to this mountain place where she can enjoy a drink at night while watching the sea and the fireflies —after managing her indigo workshop, building a bed&breakfast and looking into other ways to revive this village, heavily hit by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. I am abandoning Sendai and Tohoku in the middle of its season-story. Now, in the rainy season, we have just visited the cedar forest of Haguro-san- the mountain of the present, one of the Dewa Sanzan: the three sacred mountains in the Yamagata prefecture. It was just like stepping into a Miyazaki anime. I think it would be more than natural to wait for the hot summer, which apparently is one of the conditions to e...