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while the cold rain drizzles beautiful grass all around me

shigure tsutsu utsukushii kusa ga mi no mawari

1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)

Notes

Wet through by the drizzling winter rain, the grass around him is beautiful. The cold rain, if anything, deepens the grass's color. Standing his ground without minding the wet, both rain and grass become, equally, things close about him.

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