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“Trees had become for me a form of medicine, or delicious food.”
“But, somehow, whichever tree I looked at, I felt a sort of gloominess deep within me.”
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“This second time, however, these same branches were adorned with leaves, and seemed to be rising up on the mountainside.”
“I think what ties them all together, though, is sadness.”
“____________________________ Excerpted from Tree: My Encounters with Trees by Aya Kōda, translated by Charlotte Goff.”
“If there was a landslide here, I feared that those beautiful trees would come down in one fell swoop.”
“Whichever way I looked at it, the collapsed area seemed to have shrunk.”
“Some are brimming with a sense of terror, some exude grief, while others appear to be in a violent fury.”
“The second daughter of Rohan Kōda (1867-1947), a famous literary figure in Japan, she began writing after his death and became a prolific writer of novels, essays and short stories.”
“It looked completely different than when I had last visited.”
“I had been led by my new interest in landslides and rivers towards a concern for the life of the vegetation around them.”
“If I had left it until after the leaves had fallen, I would never have noticed this relationship between the trees and the earth they stand on.”
“Perhaps trees possess a seductive kind of power.”
“Surely it couldn’t be that, in just these few short months, the mountain had crumbled so much that it had actually become smaller.”
“I sensed that these stacks of rocks were steeped in an unfathomable sadness, as vast as themselves.”
“In front of it stood an incredibly steep cliff.”
“If you claim to know these landscapes at all, you must really observe them at least four times in each of the four seasons.”
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“My mind was overtaken with thoughts such as, What if this slope were to collapse, or these riverbanks crumble and wash away?”
“I had started thinking of them as something anxiety-inducing, daubed with sorrow.”
“Quiet and desolate though this scene was, I believe tragedy was truly at its heart.”
“The sunny days had not gone away, and neither had the blowing of the wind.”