sunlight becomes at some point moonlight — the tree's shadow
hikage itsuka tsukikage to nari ki no kage
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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The light of the sun turns, unnoticed, into the light of the moon, and only the tree's shadow stays there unchanged. Beside a single tree, the hours from morning to night have flowed quietly by. A day of doing nothing becomes, just as it is, the poem.