thistles bright and vivid — a morning after rain
azami azayakana asa no ameagari
1933–1934 · Begging journeys out from the hermitage
Sōmokutō · On the Begging Road (Gyōkotsu tojō)
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On a morning after rain, the purple of the thistles is wet and all the more vivid. The sound of the poem, strung with "a" after "a," is the very air of a rinsed morning. Read aloud, the light after rain spreads even inside the mouth.