A house of honor.
sound upon sound — rising-sun flags rattling
oto wa narande hinomaru hatataku
1937–1938 · Wartime poems
Sōmokutō · The Home Front (Jūgo)
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A house honored for having sent off a soldier. Along its eaves the rising-sun flags rattle and snap in the wind. Hatataku is the sound a flag makes. No human voices, only the noise of flags lined up and clattering, and the poem passes by the front of the house.