today, picking butterbur and eating butterbur
kyō wa fuki o tsumi fuki o tabe
1932–1934 · At the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · One Man Within (Gochū hitori)
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Today he picked butterbur and ate that butterbur, and that was the whole of the day. The fragrant simplicity of a life with nothing coming between the picking and the eating. Tomorrow's affairs he leaves to tomorrow.