蒸し暑い - Mushi Atsui
蒸し - mushi, meaning steamed.
暑い - atsui, meaning hot (weather).
The Japanese summer is like nothing I've ever experienced before. The atmosphere is cloying, close, and there is a distinctive smell, as if all the roads and pavements were melting, yet are made from decaying vegetable matter rather than concrete. Sweat is cascading from my forehead, everything is sticky and damp. Shops offer a moments bliss from air conditioners set to full blast, then disappear as you walk past the open door. Now is the season for ghosts and beasties, appearing out of the sweltering madness to say "boo!" before turning back into innocuous objects. The crazy thing is, it's not even July yet. It's going to be much hotter come August.
Labels: Japan
posted by Shining Love Pig @ 8:29 am
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4 Comments:
Poor you. Is it totally the weather that is causing sweat to "cascade from your forehead" or was the presentation a contributory factor?
How did it go Chris?
H's mum and dad
Yes - I too am interested in the presentation. We are also dripping wet here, in good old, soggy old England, but it's not from sweat!!
hi, SLP! we lived in japan, 1988-89, in yokosuka. my daughter was born there. she is departing for college in the fall, but i don't imagine the summers have gotten much easier in the years gone by.
you do have dehumidifiers, don't you? in the closet, i mean -- there is nothing like mold on one's shoes to make clear that everything is different. even as one is seeking and finding common ground.
daughter spent a month in japan 2 summers ago, will study japanese some more in college, and hopes to do a junior year abroad. she will always be gaijin -- that was, in fact, the label on our parking spot when we lived in yokosuka, and the addressee of one of our bills -- but it never does hurt to build bridges.
I can send you a box of freezing cold New Zealand winter air if you like? It has just hit with a vengeance here.
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