It's the beginning of spring! Green vegetables are delicious. new moon note January 2025.

Happy New Year! It's the first new moon of 2025, the Lunar New Year. It's already been a month since the New Year in January.

This month's special juice is a "Green Leaf Blend" made by squeezing various leafy vegetables and blending them with kiwi. Winter leafy vegetables are truly surprisingly delicious.
It becomes sweeter than in summer. Like other living things, they store fat to survive the cold, which makes them rich in carbohydrates and sweeter. This is especially noticeable in juice.
Along with this green leaf blend, the frozen juice Detox Scale, which was once said to be "unacceptable!", has been improved in quality and is now very delicious. I stock up on this Detox Scale and drink it every morning. It definitely makes me feel better. It may be difficult at first to get used to making it a habit to skip breakfast and drink this Detox Scale, but it will definitely improve your quality of life. Please give it a try.

After the new year, we had a big mochi-pounding party atBassed Farm in Hayama, and as is becoming an annual tradition, we watched a beautiful sunset while chatting with the artist duo Hitotzuki ! We made yuzu pepper using yuzu harvested at their parents' house, and as is also customary, we made miso with our family from Kochi at Shimomura Farm , located in the amazing location of Onomi, Kochi Prefecture! Finally, we pounded mochi (part 2!) with everyone who gathered under the warm sun at Sunshine Juice Kyoto Lab using mochi rice selected by 369 Shoten . It was a month filled with lots of fun.

Humans are truly amazing, processing plants in various ways to create a rich culture. Nowadays, you can easily buy anything, but when you actually make it, touch it with your hands, mix it with everyone's lives in the process, and have time to chat, the result is something on a different level, delicious in more ways than just taste.

Then in January, I went to "Self Help," a solo exhibition in Tokyo by Sasu of Hitotsuzuki, who invited me to make the aforementioned yuzu kosho. I've been friends with them for about 15 years now, and I'm a big fan and respectful of them. Sasu's solo exhibition was wonderful and left a lasting impression on me.

I was very interested in the work on the flyer for this exhibition because it was different from his previous works, and I was looking forward to seeing it, but it was a work that really touched my heart. Sasu wrote about the background of his work, which changed from beautiful symmetrical works to "buggy" works, and I was also moved by the sentence, "I think there is something beautiful in the way he struggles to maintain the balance of his mind." I want to be like this, I want to do this. Even if I think that, it doesn't always happen, and I end up panicking and losing my composure. Even in such a situation, I feel like I want to be as calm as possible, and I feel like I do various things every day to live that way. Sasu's exhibition will be held at snow contemporary in Nishiazabu, Tokyo until February 15th, so if you are in the area, please come and see it.

The cold days continue, but now that the Lunar New Year is over, spring is gradually approaching. It's still cold, but I like the feeling that people, plants, animals, and everyone are getting excited about spring. I hope you are healthy this month too!