Fall is arguably the best season in Japan. Even if you don\u2019t agree with me now, maybe you\u2019ll agree with me by the end of this.<\/p>\n
There are many reasons to love fall, and it caters to all our senses. We\u2019ve got beautiful autumn leaves for our eyes and ears, delicious food for our noses and stomachs, and the most important of all is that it isn\u2019t hot or humid anymore.<\/p>\n
As the summer heat and humidity subsides<\/strong>, shades of red, orange, yellow, and everything in between gradually dyes the mountainsides of Japan. The French author Albert Camus said, \u201cAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.\u201d While spring represents \u201cbirth,\u201d fall is like a fiery requiem<\/strong> that celebrates their life.<\/p>\n When I think of fall in Japan, I think of delicious mushrooms and the smell of hot, roasted chestnuts coming from street vendors. Having lived in Sendai, I also miss the Tohoku tradition of having imonikai by the riverside with family, friends, and colleagues. If vegetables aren\u2019t your cup of tea, Pacific saury and salmon are also in season.<\/p>\n Finally, there\u2019s the climate. I think it\u2019s superior to all the other seasons. Spring is usually the start of the rainy season, which means it\u2019s wet and warm, summer is hot and humid and winter is cold and too dry due to heaters being used. Autumn is the perfect temperature for us to wear clothes we actually want to wear and not only because it\u2019s too hot or too cold. Compared to Canada, we don\u2019t see much rain or gloomy weather in the fall in Japan. This is important because our laundry still dries outside during the day, and it\u2019s also not too hot or cold that we need to turn on our air conditioner! This means we can save on electricity fees and use them on autumn food instead.<\/p>\n Autumn is often short-lived, but that is all the more reason we should embrace it and enjoy it for the mere fact that we still have three more seasons to go through before autumn returns.<\/p>\n Loki<\/p>\n Vocabulary<\/strong> Fall is arguably the best season in Japan. Even if you don\u2019t agree with me now, maybe you\u2019ll agree with me by the end of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nsubside (v) \u2013 to become less strong or intense
\nrequiem (n) \u2013 an act of remembering a dead person
\nnot one\u2019s cup of tea (idiom) \u2013something you don\u2019t like very much or something you\u2019re not good at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"