from deep in the soil of home a bell cricket
furusato no tsuchi no soko kara kanetataki
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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The clear voice of the kanetataki (bell cricket) seems to rise, as it were, from deep in the soil of his native place. In one small insect's cry he hears even the presence of those who sleep beneath that earth. The deep-listening ear of an autumn night.