Japan has five seasons and June is the rainy season, bringing flash floods, damp laundry, mold, and delicious tender warabi mochi (rolled in crushed peanuts). I don't know why warabi mochi is seasonal, but you can only get it in tsuyu.
Here is a haiku I wrote to honor the rainy season in New Hampshire, too.
Damp bath towels sulk.
The big fan churns, exhausted.
Warm rain slaps green plums.
c. Sara Backer 2009
Published on June 28, 2009 07:36