Self-admonition
one is enough I wash the rice in the pot
hitotsu areba kototaru nabe no kome o togu
1937–1938 · Late years at Gochū-an
Sōmokutō · Persimmon Leaves (Kaki no ha)
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A verse prefaced "Self-admonition." One pot is enough — for boiling, for cooking, it will do. In that same pot he washes his rice again today. He fixes his resolve to live owning little into the feel of a single utensil in his hand.