komorebi

Language: Japanese · [komoɾebi] · Pronunciation: kom-o-REH-bee

Meaning

sunlight dappling through the leaves — sunbeams in the woods

The story

Japanese writes it with the characters for tree, leak and sun: light seeping through a canopy and landing in slow-moving spots on the path. Everyone has stood in it; almost no language has named it. English gets by with dappled sunbeams.

The four rounds

Which language is it from?

Japanese

Where would you hear it?

On a woodland walk after lunch

Which feeling does it carry?

Hushed and quietly glad

What does it mean?

Sunlight falling in patches through leaves

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