Chanoyu for (the) Fall para el otoño (en caída)

Chanoyu for (the) Fall / Chanoyu para el otoño employs a variety ofJapanese poetic forms to explore the interplay of light and dark-ness, presence and absence, shadows, subtlety, and the unsayable(y¿gen). These forms allow the author to pursue a disciplined at-tention to thought and feeling (kokoro), revealing the depths hid-den within ordinary experience.At one level, this volume reflects on autumn and the quiet descentof leaves, light, and time. Yet because the English word fall signi-fies both a season and the act of falling, it inspired Rolando Pérezto create a work concerned not only with autumn but with themany kinds of falls (furu) that shape a human life-losses, trans-formations, endings, and renewals.The result is a distinctly Western meditation composed in the mi-nor key of y¿gen, where what remains unspoken often carries thegreatest resonance.Chanoyu for (the) Fall / Chanoyu para el otoño is the fourth andfinal volume of the quartet Chanoyu for the Seasons/Chanoyu paralas estaciones.