6:40, Woke up in a daze. Feel cottony in my head. The sunshine feels too intense this morning... Went to bed 2:00 a.m., I remember. In the midnight, I was cooking curry for today's supper, my three-weekly routine and the very least I can d…

6:30, Look up at the east sky and autumn clouds are hovering. Altocumulus, in meteorological term. Before I know, the season is changing. The temperature is forgiving 25C. The sunshine has dropped its sharpest fang. The air carries some co…

6:20, Drizzling. Foggy. A kilometer visibility, possibly. How different this morning is from yesterday's and from other mornings that have ever existed. Every morning is new. We tend to think the opposite. Our days are rather uneventful, d…

6:10, Like a song in a minor key, my mood swings low and never floats. The sky is dark. Rain is falling on the city. It blurs the distant buildings towering as if in another world. The rain is tapping on the roof. I close my eyes and liste…

6:30, The day has started already. Bustle is back. The town is regaining vitality after a long break for both the dead and alive. Obon(お盆) has passed quietly. Everything looks different now. "If the doors of perception were cleansed ever…

1:16 p.m. The doors closed. The diesel engine kicked in. The train shuddered once and started to move at last, slowly, carefully gaining speed and trundled out of the platform. Having been through boring private houses, now the one-box loc…

2:00 p.m. The beach is eerily quiet. There is something surreal about the place. Hazy. As clear as the view of the beach is, with strong sunshine generously pouring onto the sand and all, where's the sea? I squint and strain my eyes, and t…

6:15, Following the sweltering heat of yesterday, today is predicted almost sauna-like. The temperature has climbed up to 29 degrees already with the humidity as high as 80 %. What's this? It's not as though Tokyo is in a tropical rain for…

6:10 The day has started with 28 degrees Celsius air. Sticky. No wind. The sun is not welcome but already here. Over the T-shirt it begins nibbling at my shoulders. This is summer. Here is a picture of a summer. It looks very old... It IS …

6:00, Something is different about this morning. Perhaps quietness of a weekend. Clouds look layered in white and gray all over the sky with glowing breaks here and there. Dull wind blowing in the balcony is saturated with moisture as if t…

6:10, Black thunderclouds fill out the south east sky. Wasn't I awoken by the drumming sound of a downpour? Was it just in a dream? The newly mowed lawn is moist with morning dew, sending out the scent of summer; thick and stuffy yet bount…

5:20 Still dark, or should I say it's already light? The day has broken. Yet the sun is still behind the beige colored building that's soaring up in the east sky. 25 degrees Celsius. The air is pregnant with a heat ahead of us. The dog day…

6:30, First sun in a week or so. A black cat walks across the garden. Funny to see an animal other than our pet dog Coo-chan there. While she was alive, she would never let a stranger, man or cat, enter the garden. Once, she bit a gardener…