grown old I long for home a cicada crying
toshi toreba furusato koishii tsukutsukubōshi
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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Grown old, he longs for home; the voice of the tsukutsukubōshi cicada drives the feeling deeper. The place he was supposed to have cast off and left comes back to him, together with the cicada's cry.