Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150214203742/@comment-146.113.71.50-20150227064035

My issue with "decaying head" is that nozarashi doesn't refer to the state of decay of the flesh, it refers to the fact that it's exposed to the elements and being destroyed by the weather (in addition to that it's my understanding that the nozarashi motif is about bones that have been wiped clean from the elements because they were "exposed in the field", the literal meaning of the word). Maybe I'm just being pedantic about it?