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in the spring wind the doors open — namu amida butsu

harukaze no tobira hirakeba namu amida butsu

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

Notes

A poem at the Byōdō-in. When the hall's doors are opened in the spring wind, there is Amida Buddha. The six syllables of the nembutsu become the poem's close. Even the wind blowing in through the opened doors is calm before the Buddha.

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