Was reading dandelions from Kawabata and it was the scene he described the stars in the night sky reminded me the stars in the night sky at ShoтАЩs almost one and a half year ago.
I remember walking out from the house looking at the sky where there s no street lamps at all compared to down town umeda. I was amazed by the milkyway, on a late summer - early autumn.
This brought me back the memories of the rice fields that I got lost within one evening at Tsukuba, and keep riding thru the narrow paths within the rice fields under the moon. I still remember the only light around was the reflection of the moon light from the rice fields.. and the smell.. that smell I still remember.
Took me to the memories of 3 years ago - back again to a near past. I remember everytime I rode back from umeda or suita to Toyotsu late at night, I stopped by the wide rice fields by the hill and watched how the moon was playing with its rays reflecting from the rice fields... When they are full of water rather than crops, it is the time when the moon was able to step down and rest on earth.
I was able to look its face, without looking into the night sky...
All of those reminded me although I love to wake up around 4.30 am in the morning why I also like to listen the late night - a cycle that makes me live like an insomniac time to time... sleeping late waking up before the sun opens her eyes... I love the silence of night. If someone asks me to define pure silence I would tell him/her to listen night. It is so silent that you can hear all the noises.. the dilemma of тАЬpurenessтАЭ comes from the concept that it makes you to hear the chitchats between the bugs even..
Well, I am not a reference point to define pure silence properly at all. To me, a late summer-autumn night full of cricket sounds and a cool breeze is the perfect definition of pure silence already because.
I miss the songs of crickets.. I miss their songs a lot, at night.
And I miss Sh┼Н┼Н also.. Hopefully when this corona ends I will be able to see the endless fields in a classical japanese village under the milkyway on my way back to a ryokan.
I need all of these a lot.
