In a world racing toward artificial perfection, Kaori Mizuki reminds us that wisdom lives first in our messy, imperfect bodies. Through essays that move between her fish market stall in Kamakura and her winter home in Puerto Vallarta, Mizuki finds profound truth in unlikely places – fish guts and menstrual blood, aging joints and morning mucus, the particular angle of a dying fish’s eye. 

With unflinching attention to physical reality and razor-sharp philosophical insight, these essays explore how spiritual truth flows not despite but through our complete human experience. From watching a praying mantis navigate market crowds to observing how elderly couples maintain intimacy, Mizuki reveals how our deepest wisdom often speaks through our most overlooked moments. 

Part meditation on mortality, part celebration of embodied consciousness, this collection invites readers to rediscover the sacred in the seemingly mundane. Through Mizuki’s eyes, even cleaning fish becomes an act of communion with life’s greatest mysteries. 

These essays, accompanied by striking monochrome illustrations, offer a revolutionary perspective: that heaven isn’t found by transcending our human experience, but by diving deeper into it.