A quiet manor Loud crash! Big nasty foot One demand: “Wash me.” It is said that long ago in Japan, there was a certain house. Every so often, a strange thing happened in this place: a yokai in the shape of a giant dirty foot appeared and demanded to be cleaned! If the resident cleaned the foot, the foot left peacefully. However, if the foot was not cleaned, then the foot stomped throughout the house and destroyed everything. Ashi Wash is our take on this Japanese folktale. Ashi Wash is like a haiku. A goofy one to be sure, but a haiku all the same. A single reading of…