the town in festival so you've come home as bones
machi wa omatsuri okotsu to natte kaerareta ka
1937–1938 · Wartime verses
Sōmokutō · The Home Front (Jūgo)
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The town is lively with a festival. On that same day, someone has come home turned into a white box of bones. The honorific question "so you have come home?" is directed at one who was meant to return alive. Merriment and silence share the same town.