The Time of Returning

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Companions of Collapse
The houses broke first. The child spoke last. Only the moth remembers.
 • Daniela Kato
Yōkai in the Hut: On Withdrawal, Shelter, and the Impossibility of Outside
We built a house to flee collapse. It let the monsters in. Shelter is never yours alone.
 • Daniela Kato
Shall I Wash My Beans, or Gobble You Whole?: Listening for the Mountain Crone
Not mother. Not healer. Not metaphor of empowerment. I cook what cannot be cured.
 • Daniela Kato
Carrying Our Mothers: Obasuteyama, Care, and the Cruelties of “Successful Aging”
A field note from the edge of the elder mountain. For the ones who break twigs in silence. For the ones who refuse to vanish gracefully.
 • Daniela Kato
In the Aftertaste of Mastery, Another Story is Waiting
A field note for the right stories that refuse the spotlight. For the wrong ones that loved brilliance before they learned to breathe. For those looking…
 • Daniela Kato
Netarō Time: Folktale, Neurocolonization, and the Ghosts of Modern Japan
A field note from the fraying nervous edge. For the ones who sleep long enough to change the river’s course. For the ghosts who refuse to perform…
 • Daniela Kato
Bathing in the Forests of Forgetting
A field note from beneath the fragrant canopy of forgetting. For the ghosts that walk even trails of healing. For the ones who still listen when the…
 • Daniela Kato
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Field Notes from the Fraying Edges of Japan’s Modernity

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