03 January 2026

Rotemburo

Leaf 260 – Looking Back / Looking Forward

 



New Year, for us at least, is also the time of year for visiting ‘onsen,’ or hot springs, here in Japan. A ‘rotemburo’ is an outdoor bath.

 

 

Watching steam rise

while snow falls –

rotemburo.

 

 


 

 Photograph Credit: EPA/Everett Kennedy Brown