Marie Kondo wrote in her bestselling 2014 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up that she spent five years as a Shinto shrine maiden and would often stop by her community shrine throughout her childhood to pay her respects to the local deity. Marie, worshiped sacred spaces, and since childhood, he learned to see spaces with a defined personality.It’s this lifelong influence that inspired Kondo to start greeting her clients' houses before starting the tidying up process, according to Kondo. “I began this custom [of greeting houses] quite naturally based on the etiquette of worshipping at Shinto shrines,” Kondo said in her book. “I believe I was inspired to do so because the tense expectancy in the air when a client opens the door resembles the atmosphere when one passes under a shrine gate and enters the sacred precincts.” Kondo said she’s noticed a difference in how much faster the tidying process goes if she performs this greeting ritual first.
During my move about in this research, I have gone through the experience of perceiving space as a living being, with its own personality and style. In my childhood, I was always curious about other people's houses. when I entered them I immediately experienced a new smell, new energy, a different architecture, and of course ... different food. Even if the food was made by different people, each house has its own flavor. I discovered that the food character corresponded more to the house than to the people.
