the wound healing it blows as an autumn-like wind
kizu ga ieyuku akimeita kaze to natte fuku
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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One of the poems written in illness. The wound is little by little healing. Just then the wind has turned autumn-like and begun to blow pleasantly on the skin. The body's recovery and the turning of the season overlap within a single wind.