no one comes and the chili peppers turn red
dare mo konai tōgarashi akō naru
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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At the hermitage where no visitor comes, only the chili peppers grow redder by the day. The length of time in which no one comes is told quietly by the reddening of the fruit. Loneliness, and the small purpose of witnessing it, become one in this poem.