LIGHT RAINS SOMETIMES FALL: A BRITISH YEAR IN JAPANS SEASONS

Across seventy-two short chapters and twelve months, Lev Parikian charts the changes that Japan’s ancient micro-seasons bring to his local patch: garden, streets, park and wild cemetery. From the birth of spring (risshun) in early February through to ‘the greater cold’ (daikan) of late January, instead of lotus blossom, praying mantis and bear, Lev watches bramble and woodlouse, hawthorn and urban fox, dragonfly and peregrine. A nature diary which reveals the beauty of small and subtle everyday changes, empowering us to 'look, look again, look better'.