living quietly and a wren comes
hissori kuraseba misosazai
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
Wake to this poem.
Santōka Alarm is an iOS app that wakes you each morning with a single poem.
Set a poem you love as your alarm.
iOS 26+
Living quietly, he finds a wren coming to him. One of the smallest birds in Japan becomes the companion of the winter hermitage. To one who lives quietly, quiet things come. And that is enough — here is the shape of a life that wants no more.