everyone at work the reaped fields wide and wide
minna de hataraku karita hirobiro
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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The fields where the rice has been cut open out wide, and the villagers work at them all together. The village's shared labor as seen by one who lives alone. In the single word 'wide and wide' comes all the brightness and openness of fields whose harvest is done.