Dodolker

“Every time I am shown to an old, dimly lit, and, I would add, impeccably clean toilet in a Nara or Kyoto temple, I am impressed with the singular virtues of Japanese architecture. The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose. It always stands apart from the main building, at the end of a corridor, in a grove fragrant with leaves and moss. No words can describe that sensation as one sits in the dim light, basking in the faint glow reflected from the shoji, lost in meditation or gazing out at the garden. The novelist Natsume Soseki counted his morning trips to the toilet a great pleasure, ‘a physiological delight’ he called it. And surely there could be no better place to savor this pleasure than a Japanese toilet where, surrounded by tranquil walls and finely grained wood, one looks out upon blue skies and green leaves.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die”
― Sam Hamill, The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

“I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad.they seem to think that if you don’t , you will never get anywhere in the world.”
― Natsume Soseki, Botchan

“When they encounter somebody who’s honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he’s nothing but a kid, a botchan.”
― Natsume Soseki