bracken already for sale
warabi ga mō urarete iru
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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Walking through town, he finds bracken already out on the shopfronts — and up in the mountains it can only just have begun to sprout. In the bracken being sold he sees the swiftness of spring and the swiftness of human life alike.