New Year's Day, 1937
from today the new calendar's rising-sun flag
kyō kara atarashii karendā no hinomaru
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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New Year's Day of 1937. On the January 1 page of the new calendar hung fresh on the wall is printed the red of the rising-sun flag. He makes a verse of the first color to meet his eye in the new year. A whole year begins, blank and new.