MEITEI situates his practice under the rubric Lost Japanese Mood (Shitsu-Nihon), an inquiry into cultural textures associated with earlier Japan. The trilogy—KWAIDAN (2018), KOMACHI (2019), and KOFU (2020–2023)—was composed in that register. Combining nursery rhymes and folk songs, field recordings, the melodic strains of traditional Japanese instruments, and piano, he gives audible form to images that drift around Japan as shared memory and atmosphere. Subtitled “A Satire of Antique Aesthetics,” KOFU unfolds in three parts, each articulating a distinct narrative trajectory. By treating nonverbal sound as primary material, he conjures a distinctly Japanese mood that only sound can carry.