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when the grass sways I somehow wait for someone

kusa no soyogeba nan to naku hito o matsu

1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)

Notes

When the grass stirs, he somehow falls into waiting for someone. No one is expected, yet the movement of the wind resembles a human presence. The poem scoops up the small motion of the heart at the gate of a solitary house.

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