Self-mockery
my shadow too chewing away late at night I am eating
kage mo bosoboso yofuke no watashi ga tabete iru
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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A verse prefaced "Self-mockery." When he eats alone late at night, the shadow the lamp throws is chewing away with him. His only companion is his own shadow. He turns his forlornness into laughter, a pair of himself and his shadow.