As rust creeps across the faces of once- proud houses, their rooftops shed tiles like falling strands of hair. In the Shinto worldview, the houses, once vibrant vessels of kami, now show the signs of aging and decline, mirroring the impermanence of all things. The rust is not just decay but a transformation, a return to nature, as the spirit of the home quietly retreats. The shedding roofs become offerings to the earth, a slow, sacred unraveling of what was built by human hands, now surrendering back to the embrace of the natural world