tsukutsukubōshi crying tsukutsukubōshi
tsukutsukubōshi naite tsukutsukubōshi
1937–1938 · Late Gochū-an period
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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A cicada whose call became its very name. It cries, and cries again, and has nothing else to say. Santōka too made a poem of that voice — the one that announces summer's end — just as he heard it. Comedy and loneliness share a single call. Is it crying somewhere again this morning?