butterflies tangling together shade and sun
chōchō motsuretsutsu kagehinata
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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Two butterflies fly as if tangled together, crossing from shade into sun and from sun into shade. Written entirely in hiragana, the line itself wavers just like the butterflies' unsteady flight.