withered right through and turned to beans
sukkari karete mame to natte iru
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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The bean plants in the field have withered utterly, and inside the pods there are already beans. To wither is, here, the very act of bearing fruit. He does not see the withered form as something ruined.