butterfly in the soft light will you climb to heaven
chōchō uraura ten e noboru ka
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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In the gentle, hazy light of spring, a butterfly flutters higher and higher. Will it climb all the way to heaven like this? The dazzle of a spring day, in which things of the earth seem to continue straight up into the heavens.