Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words by Ando, Miya
Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words by Ando, Miya

Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words

A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo. In...
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Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words by Ando, Miya

Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words

$45.73
Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words by Ando, Miya

Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words

$45.73
Author: Miya Ando
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain's many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence. The words range from prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological (mukaame, or "very fine rain that falls in spring") to the mystical (bunryūu, 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. The book presents 100 of these 2,000 drawings of rain accompanied by the full index of 2,000 Japanese words and their approximate English equivalents, presented alphabetically using a hybrid Japanese-English alphabetization rubric.

Author: Miya Ando
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780262049863


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2025

About the Author
Miya Ando is a Japanese and American artist. Her work examines the dialectic coexistence of Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of natural phenomena and is included in many private and public collections, including that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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