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into the begging bowl too the hail

teppatsu no naka e mo arare

1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)

Notes

He holds out his iron begging bowl (teppatsu), and in leaps not alms of rice but hail. A mendicant body standing rooted beneath the winter sky — and yet in the sound of the hail bouncing in the bowl there is somehow a ring of something granted from heaven. One of Santōka's best-known poems.

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