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A wounded soldier.

legs and hands left behind in China — back to Japan again

ashi wa te wa shina ni nokoshite futatabi nihon ni

1937–1938 · Wartime poems
Sōmokutō · The Home Front (Jūgo)

Notes

A poem on a wounded soldier. He has left his legs, his hands, on the battlefields of the continent, and set foot again on the soil of Japan. Words that merely name what was lost convey, without exaggeration or sentiment, the very shape of the thing called war.

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