today one postcard in the wintry wind
kyō wa kogarashi no hagaki ichimai
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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On a day of cold winter wind, what arrived was a single postcard. That, too, is all the harvest this one day brought. The gladness of that one postcard and the loneliness that there was nothing else balance at exactly the same weight.