inside the freshly papered shoji one person
harikaeta shōji no naka no hitori
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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Repaper the shoji and the room goes white and bright. And the one inside that brightness is, after all, himself alone. The fresh paper only throws his solitude into clearer light.