the graveyard warm a butterfly
hakaba atatakōshite chōchō
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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The sunlit graveyard is warm, and a butterfly is flitting about. The place where the dead sleep is also the most peaceful place of all. Effortlessly, the butterfly seems to pass back and forth across the border of life and death.