wet with the rain that cloud let fall
ano kumo ga otoshita ame ni nurete iru
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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Look up, and there is that cloud. It is the rain it let fall that now wets him — the comedy of standing soaked while gazing up at the very culprit that loosed the rain.