the autumn wind blowing through and letting it blow through
fukinukeru akikaze no fukinukeru mama ni
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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The autumn wind blows through his body, through his hut. He does not resist it, letting it blow through as it will. The form of the verse — the same phrase said twice over — is itself the very posture of a life that does not fight the wind.