in my home village where the rain falls i walk barefoot
ame furu furusato wa hadashi de aruku
1932–1934 · At the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · One Man Within (Gochū hitori)
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He walks barefoot through his native village in the rain, needing neither umbrella nor sandals. The softness of the wet earth against his soles is just as it was in childhood. What he could never do in a stranger's land comes naturally on the soil where he was born.