On May 1st, Japan’s Heisei era will officially come to an end. Following months of deliberation from an honorific council of elders, the name of the new era was unveiled last week: Reiwa 令和. The two kanji characters for Reiwa are derived from the Man’yōshū, an eighth-century (Nara period) anthology of waka poetry. According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the English-language interpretation of Reiwa would be “auspicious harmony” or “beautiful harmony”.

Here’s my visual interpretation of Reiwa through the lens of Silicon Valley:

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