What is Spring?

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All the feelings of spring are here.
"Spring makes me feel excited."
"Spring makes me feel fluffy."
"Spring is delicious."
"Spring makes my heart flutter."...
The first in a series of picture books depicting the seasons by Minahamu, an author who uses his overwhelming artistic skill to depict changing emotions and nature.
A masterpiece that is like a new classic, capturing the freshness of spring in modern Japan.


●Author's comments on this work
In the long, stable winter, small signs of news start to trickle in, and changes slowly begin to occur, like petals opening one by one. I think that the frustration and anxiety of being in the midst of change give us a sense of being alive.


Society is often changing, the temperature is unstable, and there is not much certainty, but the image is of time passing by on a tightrope walking the happy news of spring.


The final page, "Spring is new," overlaps with the joy of the complete end of winter and the successful transformation into a new self.

Título em japonês: はるってなんか