For the Nagoya circle
we won't meet again — the cloudiness of budding trees
mō aemasumai ko no me no kumori
1936 · The long journey east
Sōmokutō · From Journey to Journey (Tabi kara tabi e)
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A parting poem for his haiku friends in Nagoya. We will surely never meet again. The overcast sky of the budding season softly enfolds that foreboding. In his late years, the partings of the road always took on the color of a farewell for this life.