the morning is cool — young myōga shoots
asa wa suzushii myōga no ko
1933–1934 · Begging journeys out from the hermitage
Sōmokutō · On the Begging Road (Gyōkotsu tojō)
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On a summer morning, young myōga shoots poke up in a corner of the garden. The cool air before the heat of the day arrives. The coolness, and the quiet way the myōga peeps from the soil — that alone becomes, just so, the joy of the morning. A poem that quietly savors the hour before it turns hot.