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the pine wind cool — a man eats, a horse eats

matsukaze suzushiku hito mo tabe uma mo tabe

1933–1934 · Begging journeys out from the hermitage
Sōmokutō · On the Begging Road (Gyōkotsu tojō)

Notes

In the cool shade beneath the wind through the pines, a man takes his midday meal and a horse crops the grass. At the roadside on the journey, man and horse alike are blown by the same wind and eat in the same way. Everything that lives must eat, and the plainness of that is bracing.

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