Like soft autumn rain
A refreshing remembrance
Water and dried leaves
-Juin Roet
To invoke the intimacy and quiet romance of Fall, its trial of time and temperance, of harvest, mature love, the refreshing quality of water on the 100 "dried leaves" composing the Hyakunin isshu revisioned by Uta Koi. Or as a duality, the sublimity of tea's warmth (water, dried leaves, thus tea) against the coolness of a rainy Autumn day spent in fond nostalgia; the joy of warmth, and reminiscing for a cool, reserved place (passion in Feudal Japan).
More intimately, to cry over dear, old memories restirred without sadness, but instead another certain powerful emotion that overcomes it, perhaps a fervent accepting thankfulness of things that were; beautiful memoirs of past passion run with pleasant tears.
The dried leaves can also be interpreted as a reference to Chihayafuru and competitive karuta, how the paper cards are laid down before the players as leaves from a tree, how Chihayafuru has revitalized, further popularized, the aged game. How Autumn is a time of memory and loss to be endured until spring comes once more (Ayase's displaced friends and endurance to see them again). However, I was definitely thinking more along the lines of Uta Koi, which feels ironic now, because I seem to keep finding it more and more fitting the other way around...
Anyway, the last element would have to be taking something small and vague then making it into something larger and more specific by use of many words to acquire loot. Short poems, a game, a manga, an anime series, ideally profit. A contest, a haiku, then finally this post and hopefully some swag (heheheheh *chortles behind paper fan coyly*
). Short of some certainly ill cards, I'm keen on seeing how this new PS3 thing works.
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