from the blossom-hazy window one chimney
hanagumori no mado kara entotsu ippon
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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The thin overcast peculiar to blossom season. All the window shows is a single chimney. Not the cherry trees of some famous spot, but the blossom-haze sensed past a chimney — this is spring within an ordinary life.