## Details * Title:: [[Tree]] * Authors:: [[Aya Kōda]] * Tags:: #fiction * Read:: [[2026-06-26]] * Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaDZM27DjDc/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[Penguin Classics]], UK, First English Edition - Original Copyright:: 1992 - Pages:: 188 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780063443464 ## Annotations What a special, beautiful book. I love the Japanese genre that describes it: zuihitsu, which the inside flap helpfully translates as “following the brush.” Kōda’s writing follows where her attention takes it, and her passion for trees and observation create many paths into the brush. This is not just a paean to the magnificence of trees, it is even more a call to appreciate the beauty of what’s inconspicuous by ubiquity. In this way, I think you’ll find Kōda to be a kindred spirit in prose to [[Mary Oliver]] and WS Merwin.