a little teahouse and chrysanthemums set in an empty bottle
choito chamise ga atte akibin ni iketa kiku
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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By the roadside there is a small teahouse, with chrysanthemums arranged in an empty bottle. That it is an empty bottle and not a vase shows the unadorned handiwork of an ordinary life. A rest in mid-journey is softened, just so, by those chrysanthemums.