the mountain path already has the bush clover blooming
yamaji haya hagi o sakasete iru
1933–1934 · Begging journeys out from the hermitage
Sōmokutō · On the Begging Road (Gyōkotsu tojō)
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Walking the mountain path, he finds the bush clover already in bloom. A step ahead of the villages below, the mountains had begun their autumn. In the single word "already" lives the small surprise of a traveler overtaken by the season.