Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year in Japans 72 Seasons

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Across seventy-two short chapters and twelve months, writer and nature lover Lev Parikian charts the changes that each of Japans ancient microseasons (of a just a few days each) bring to his local British patch garden, streets, park and wild cemetery.

From the birth of spring (risshun) in early February to the greater cold (daikan) in late January, Lev draws our eye to the exquisite beauty of the outside world, day-to-day.

Instead of Japans lotus blossom, praying mantis and bear, he watches bramble, woodlouse and urban fox; hawthorn, dragonfly and peregrine. But the seasonal rhythms and the power of nature to reflect and enhance our mood remain.

By turns reflective, witty and joyous, this is both a nature diary and a revelation of the beauty of the small and subtle changes of the everyday, allowing us to
look, look again, look better.

It is perfect Spring book to read in real time across the British year.

Author Bio

Lev Parikian is a writer, birdwatcher and conductor. He is the author of Into the Tangled Bank (2020) and Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear (2018). He lives in West London with his family, who are getting used to his increasing enthusiasm for nature. As a birdwatcher, his most prized sightings are a golden oriole in the Alpujarras and a black redstart at Dungeness Power Station.