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toward the plume grass the plume grass swaying

karukaya e karukaya no yurete iru

1932–1934 · At the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · One Man Within (Gochū hitori)

Notes

The plume grass sways in the wind and brushes the next stalk, and the swaying travels from clump to clump like a wave. Someone watches this and nothing more, never tiring of it — the soundless hours of an autumn field.

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