one single camellia, one single flower
ichirin no tsubaki ichirin
1932–1934 · At the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · One Man Within (Gochū hitori)
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He confirms the single camellia that has bloomed by saying "one flower" once again. There are no others; that one flower is everything. In a life with only a countable few of anything, one flower stays one flower and is fully enough.