a camellia opens and there is a grave
tsubaki hiraite haka ga aru
1932–1934 · At the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · One Man Within (Gochū hitori)
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A camellia has bloomed, and beneath it there is a grave. Whose grave, he does not say. With only the red of the flower and the stillness of the stone set side by side, the distance between the living and the dead grows suddenly small.