Skip to content

Japan Know How archive

KonMari checklist

Japanese Home

What Kondo Actually Wrote, in Order

Marie Kondo did not order readers to keep only 30 books, and “spark joy” is an imperfect translation of a Japanese verb. Here is the original KonMari sequence, what you do only once, and which familiar claims came from the television version rather than the method itself.

Kaori Miyata