waking clear-headed I feel the moon right overhead
hokkari samete maue no tsuki o kanjite iru
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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Suddenly awake, he finds the moon directly overhead. Rather than seeing it, he feels its brightness with his whole body. A poem written in illness. In the border between sleep and waking, only the moon's light arrives quietly.