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The Traveller's Lexicon: komorebi
A Japanese word for a very particular kind of light.
Komorebi (木漏れ日) — pronounced roughly “koh-moh-reh-bee” — describes sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees. It is a word that suggests both the sight and the feeling of being in a forest.
It is commonly used in everyday and literary Japanese. Like many such words, it is hard to capture in a single English phrase, and it is best not to treat it as a symbol of an entire culture.
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