Two Hundred Fifty-Four

Several months ago, I wrote on my blog about a Japanese word (komorebi) that means sunlight filtering through tree leaves. I coined a wholly unsuitable neologism that would get at the theme, but would not be restricted to sunlight filtering through leaves. I said I would use komoshadow to describe the “dim, non-illuminated areas on a wall next to the sunlight coming through a window.” I have not used the word since. That’s because the word is, as I just said, wholly unsuitable. Well, maybe dappleture would work. As in, “The dappleture on the wall beyond the kitchen sink was a photographic negative of a fir tree just outside the window.”  I’m not sure that works, either.  Your thoughts?