Knowing the time
Autumn again, polycrisis persists
The east and the west
the melancholy all one
the autumnal windhigashi nishi / awaresa hitotsu / aki no kaze
Matsuo Basho, Autumn, 1686.
The calendar suggests it is late autumn in Japan, but it feels like proper autumn weather has only recently begun here. Two years ago I wrote a note on ‘polycrisis in autumn’, now a time to return to those themes. Scrambled…