Yobuko harbor.
the morning calm sets down two islands
asanagi no shima o futatsu oku
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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On the sea in the calm of a windless morning, two islands float. In the single word 'sets down,' it is as if someone had quietly placed them there — a stillness that belongs to a summer morning alone, where neither wave nor wind stirs.