grown used to living here the wild camellia blooms on and on
suminarete yabutsubaki itsumade mo saki
1936–1937 · At the Gochūan hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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The wild camellia of the house he has grown used to keeps blooming on and on. The camellia's long flowering season, blooming and dropping in turn, overlaps with the length of the months he has settled here. Both flower and self have grown at home in this place.