★ We will carefully pack and ship your order. --- There are hands that support the beautiful landscapes of Japan, and there is sabo (erosion control) to live in harmony with the overwhelming power of nature. Twenty-five years ago, Aya Koda, the grandmother, observed the "collapse," and her granddaughter, Nao, revisits it. With thoughts on the passage of time and human connections, she writes a moving travelogue with a sure hand. When things move, things change. Mountains, rivers, and human hearts, nothing remains still. It is a farewell, and at the same time, a beginning. We only believe things are unchanging when we measure them with our own selfish standards, but in reality, there are movements beyond our perception, beyond human scales. I feel as though I have arrived at the impermanence of this world, as has been said since ancient times, and have opened my heart widely. -- From the text