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Toward Takarazuka

spring snow falling the women are truly beautiful

haru no yuki furu onna wa makoto utsukushii

1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)

Notes

A poem on the road toward Takarazuka. Amid the spring snow that drifts down and vanishes, the women passing by looked truly beautiful. The plainness of speaking his wonder just as it came is soft as the spring snow itself.

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