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soaked as soaked can be, i've come — buttercups

nureru dake nurete kita kinpōge

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

Notes

With no rain gear, he has walked soaked as soaked can be. At the roadside is the yellow of buttercups, wet with the same rain. Once you give in to it, the rain no longer troubles you. The brightness of the wet flowers consoles the wet traveler.

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