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Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook
On a small Japanese word that everyone has heard and almost everyone has misaddressed, and what changes when you find out who it is for.
The Tokyo Hermit
Letters on wabi-sabi, mottainai, and the art of seeing — from a small apartment in Tokyo. Click to read The Tokyo Hermit, by Tōan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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