As Hitchcock says:
"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it."
Similarly there's always a brief moment of terrible anticpipation during landing. One wheere you sub-consciously cross your fingers and hope. If you're being lashed with heavy rain, illuminated by lightning, deafened by thunder and you can't see the runway till you hit it - maybe it's ok to be more vocal.
Landing terrors over, we stumble off the plane into a wall of humidity. It’s very hot and very wet and very, very tiring, and that's just getting into the airport.
Looks set to be like this our whole stay.
Visibility is terrible. We can see our aeroplane but the rest of the airfield is hidden in a wall of grey cloud. The rain looks like comic book rain. Movie rain, Matrix rain.
The elements are so much stronger here, so much more pronounced and vivid. Even in these first few minutes it becomes apparent why part of Nagare is about nature making its mark.
Thought
Nagare is influenced by the element's effect on the landscape and Japan's weather is a powerful, uncontrollable and sometimes violent force. It's no surprise Japan's main religions of Buddhism and Shinto include weather gods in their Canon, and these weather gods are still revered in Japan for a reason. Does this mean that Nagare has a powerful, violent side?
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