white flowers from the mountain onto my desk
yama kara shiroi hana o tsukue ni
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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White flowers picked in the mountains are set on the desk. With that single unnamed spray, the air of the room changes. The mountain and the desk of a solitary life are joined by white flowers.