Or, suna setchin, 砂雪隠 (snow-hide).

A feature of some Japanese tea gardens, located near the inner waiting bower, symbolic of a host's regard for his guests…no, that’s not quite the right idea…

In  order to explain  this rightly, you have to remember that every detail of a tea garden serves some purpose. There is a distinction between the inner and outer gardens (and perhaps one or more additional zones), in that worldly cares are, perhaps, still present,  in this outer zone, and can be purified in this liminal space. Here one might find a working lavatory, whether modern (with adaptations) or traditional, meant to be used to refresh the guests, a place to change into traditional garb, etc. 

The operative word for this part of the garden is “pretty”. There might be flowering plants, eye-catching decorative elements, things that charm and interest. It looks like a garden. Things are planned, and what is part of the human realm (like that

Ah yes. Andrew Emory Tate, described by the mainstream media as a "controversial influencer", by which they mean "the fount of all misogyny everywhere", by a certain subset of terminally online people as the Messiah, and by sensible people (i.e. me) as a pathetic grifter who inherited a lot of wealth and multiplied it by running various scams online and selling his pseudo high roller lifestyle as proof that this works. However, that's not the topic that this writeup is

I've been having a lot of nightmares lately. Not just the waking nightmare of watching the conspiracy theorists slowing taking over the public political discourse, but actual nightmare dreams. The worst involved me rescuing Tessie, who'd been kidnapped and taken to New York City's Chinatown with a ridiculous and scary Big Trouble in Little China plot. Other events included me being sexually assaulted and having to to kill one of my torturers (a scene reminiscent of