Winter
冬
Winter in Japan: A Poem of Silence and Action
Japan’s winter is a season that moves along the boundary between Silence and Intensity (Sei to Retsu).
As the mountains sink into silver snow, blurring the line between earth and sky,
powder snow dances with the wind, and JAPOW gently lifts the body as you glide.
Skiing and snowboarding rewrite the landscape with speed, and life dances along the terrain.
In heavy snowfall regions, the snow embracing the roofs deepens the silence,
the white of the roads covers daily life, and the light floats vividly in the cold.
Meanwhile, in high altitudes, Juhyō (frost-covered trees) gather in clusters,
the trees clad in ice, seeming to freeze time itself.
Within the sound of the mountain climber’s footsteps, a dialogue with the landscape is born,
and the very air begins to speak.
Winter is still, yet it is surely moving.
The cold pierces the skin, but a soft warmth dwells in the heart.
Japan’s winter is a poem woven with vitality and fantasy (Yakudō to Gensō)
concealed within a frozen landscape.
It is a profound season that can only be truly touched
by stepping into and feeling its layers.