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cold clouds hurrying by

samui kumo ga isogu

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

Notes

Cold, bleak clouds hurry across the sky. It is the clouds that are in a hurry, yet somehow even his own forlornness, gazing up at them, feels hurried along.

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