Water of the Sky by Miya Ando
Water of the Sky by Miya Ando
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Water of the Sky

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Book information

  • Format: Hardback
  • Main subject: Dictionaries
  • Genre / subject: Dictionaries
  • Author: Miya Ando
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Water of the Sky by Miya Ando is an illustrated Japanese weather dictionary for adult readers.

A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo. In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. The words range from prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological ( mukaame, or "very fine rain that falls in spring" ) to the mystical ( bunryuu, or "rain that splits a dragon's body in half " ) and from the minute ( kisame, or "raindrops that fall off the leaves and branches of trees") to the vast ( takuu, or "blessed rain that quenches all things in the universe").

Ando's visual interpretations of these terms are not so much illustrations as evocations, attempts to embody or imagine each rain's precise and essential quality.

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