"Rainy days calm down," said Empress Masako when she was Crown Princess.
Certainly, I nodded at the time, but as the years went by, I came to deeply agree with her.
なけゝとて 月やはものを 思はする
かこちかほなる わが涙かな
西行法師
The sound of raindrops hitting the hydrangea leaves, and the colors of the leaves becoming more vivid as they get wet, cleanse and purify the depths of me.