pissing at my leisure among nothing but grass shoots
nonbiri shito suru kusa no me darake
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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Relieving himself at leisure by the roadside, his feet are among nothing but grass shoots. Right in the thick of the sprouting season, human business mingles too. Even a lapse of manners comes to seem generous in the midst of a spring field.