today again all day i have walked the wind
kyō mo ichinichi kaze o aruite kita
c. 1933 · Begging journeys out from the Gochū hermitage
Sōmokutō · On the Begging Road (Gyōkotsu tojō)
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Not "walked through the wind" but "walked the wind" — the phrasing holds a whole day in which wind and body dissolved into each other. It is a poem of evening reflection, but heard in the morning it turns into a promise: "today too, let me walk a day like this."