Yukio Sakaue focuses on the beauty of a rainy day. As he mentions in the afterword, the Japanese language has different names for different kinds of rain, from kosame (light rain) to kirisame (foggy rain) to harusame (spring rain). In his photographs of rural towns, overgrown concrete structures and vegetation, each instance of rain becomes its own event, transforming the world into a gentler, calmer place, at least until the sun comes out again. The book opens with a haiku by Mantaro Kubota about a shower after which the water still keeps some blue sky, and the afterword wishes to be like the spring rain, which helps fade small, coffee-stain-like memories.