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Ama No Mizu, Water of the Sky, Water that Belongs to the Heavens / Rain Dictionary [Completion June 2025]
Hardcover with hand dyed indigo linen, 2200 pages, English and Japanese text. Edition of 2.
Essays by Roshi Joan Halifax and Lilly Wei
Self published by the artist
Exhibition in a book designed for artist Miya Ando is a bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 2,000 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions.
Trade edition published by MIT Press available Nov 4, 2025