(The following is a translation of the email which was sent to Japanese customers.)

This is Kanako Yoshida from YOUYOUANG.

How are you doing?

There is less than a month left this year. Time really flies. We skipped autumn and are already at Christmas.

I wanted to enjoy the long autumn nights a little longer while sipping whiskey with water on the balcony.

Last weekend, I went to Houtokuji Temple, famous for its "autumn leaves on the floor". Even though it is December, the leaves are still in full bloom. The colorful leaves were reflected on the polished lacquer floor.

This is what they mean when they say something is breathtakingly beautiful.

The garden is a dry landscape garden, with sand as water streams and rocks as mountains. This garden is also well-maintained with not a single fallen leaf to be seen. There was "eternal beauty" that never gets old.

Standing in the garden, I suddenly remembered an incident at the Tokyo Art Club (a trade show for antiques shops).

I knew nothing about antiques, but I was fascinated by the modern and elegant appearance of the incense burner, and when I stopped to stare at it, the owner of the shop spoke to me. "Even if it's a 1000-year-old piece, it looks fresh as if it was made yesterday. That's the essence of antiques."

Yes, the incense burner was made in the Beisong period, over 1000 years ago.

On the back of the incense burner, there were affixed certificates that it had gone through the world's leading auctions.

According to the book, dry landscape gardening began in the Asuka period (7th century), and was introduced in a gardening manual in the Heian period (9th-12th century). It's moving to think that I can see the same scenery that people saw 1400 years ago. And the garden, like the antique incense burner mentioned earlier, "looked fresh even though it was made in the same style as 1400 years ago."

We live in an age where beautifully designed things are made every day and we receive a lot of information from all over the world, but I feel like I've been taught that the essence of future design is hidden in the "things" and "events" that continue to exist beyond time and space.

I wrote more seriously than usual today. (lol)

It's a busy time at the end of the year, so please take care of yourself.