'Tis the season for making "korogaki" dried persimmons in Kyoto's Ujitawara, with the fruit laid out on racks under the sun and in a cold wind at a "kakiya" persimmon shop built of logs and straw.
As we enter the latter half of September, I hope fall is coming soon to Korea. I remember my visits and sabbatical there and the lovely season. The Northern Hemisphere continues to devolve into a subtropical zone, absent climate policies on a global scale. Fall remains a welcome respite from the tumult of weather crises in late summer. In all of that, I m thinking of dried persimmons, apples, Yangsuri, and Bulguk Temple.