In answer to a poem by the layman Hōsai.
a crow caws and I too am alone
karasu naite watashi mo hitori
Early Shōwa era · Answering a poem by the layman Hōsai
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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A quiet response to Ozaki Hōsai's 'a crow caws and I too am alone.' Hōsai, who died in 1926, was a fellow poet of free-verse haiku and Santōka's kindred spirit. One crow, and I too am one: solitude, left as solitude, is somewhere joined to another.