Dōtonbori, Osaka
everyone has a house to return to — the coming and going of evening
minna kaeru ie wa aru yūbe no yukiki
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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A poem at Dōtonbori in Osaka. Everyone passing through the evening crowd has a house to return to. He, watching them, does not. With eyes somewhere between envy and loneliness, he watches other people's evening.