Returned to the hermitage, the twenty-second of July
once again here the grass grown thick and left that way
futatabi koko ni kusa mo shigeru mama
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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On the twenty-second of July, ending a long journey, he arrived back at Gochū-an. The hermitage's grass, left to run wild, is there to greet him. In not reproaching the "grown thick and left that way" but accepting it, there is the ease of one who has come home.