Colophon

The mark

The small circle in the header is an ensō with a deliberate gap and a seed dot—presence without closure. The open arc keeps the circle incomplete, echoing mirrorless awareness; the dot sits near the gap as a soft “moon seed” rather than a literal moon. It was drawn by hand in SVG, and it is the closest thing this site has to a logo.

How it’s built

This site is built with Eleventy, a static site generator, and served as plain HTML. There is no JavaScript framework, no analytics, no trackers, no cookies, no comments, and no social buttons. Most pages weigh less than a short piece of music.

The type is set in whatever good book faces your computer already has—Iowan Old Style, Palatino, or their kin—so nothing needs to be downloaded to read here. Dates are set in your machine’s monospace, like a diary stamp. The colors are ink on washi: warm paper, dark ink, a little vermilion. After dark, the paper dims on its own.

Why no comments

Comment boxes invite quickness. Letters invite consideration. Every piece here ends with a reply-by-email link instead—slower, quieter, person to person. The best conversations this site has started happened that way.

The badge

In the old tradition of the hand-made web, this site keeps an 88×31 button in its footer. If you’d like to link here from your own site, you are welcome to take it:

<a href="https://ridokoushi.com/">
  <img src="https://ridokoushi.com/img/badges/just-this-88x31.svg"
       alt="The Mirrorless Moon" width="88" height="31">
</a>

Last tended 2026.06.09.