“Hari is usually translated as ‘tension,’” Fukasawa says, “but that’s not correct. In Japanese, young people’s skin, it’s very smooth. That’s called hari skin. If you describe an energetic person, then we’d say a hari person. It’s very hard to explain.”

He pulls out a piece of paper. “This is a human,” he says, drawing a small figure. “This is force ( Read more... )