with relief there's the moon I've come to Tokyo
hotto tsuki ga aru tōkyō ni kite iru
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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Look up and there is the moon. The same moon as the mountain moon hangs in the Tokyo sky too. In the single word "with relief" is the ease of meeting a familiar face in the crush of the city. He has, without doubt, come to Tokyo now.