utterly hushed, the shepherd's purse at the height of bloom
hissorikan to shite penpengusa no hanazakari
1932–1934 · At the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · One Man Within (Gochū hitori)
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All around is utterly hushed, and in that stillness only the shepherd's purse comes into full bloom. The flowering of a weed no one stops to look at, a peak no one will ever know of. He who watches it lives in much the same kind of life.