toward the moon the way the pampas plumes rise
tsuki e kaya no ho no nobiyō
1936–1937 · At Gochū-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · A Landscape of Weeds (Zassō fūkei)
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The pampas plumes rise straight up toward the moon. In the phrasing "the way they rise" is his wonder at their vigor. A spare, spacious scene of an autumn night made of nothing but the moon and the pampas plumes.