mountain peers out past mountain — the rainy season clears
yama kara yama ga nozoite tsuyubare
1934–1936 · To the mountains, to the waters
Sōmokutō · Walking Mountains, Walking Waters (Sankō suikō)
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The long rains have at last let up, and past the overlapping mountains yet another mountain pokes out its face. There is a fairy-tale humor in it, as if mountain were peeking at mountain. The light of the rain-washed clearing makes the whole landscape new.