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in the spring wind the bagworm pokes out its head

harukaze no minomushi hyoi to nozoita

1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)

Notes

Blown by the spring wind, a bagworm pokes its face out of its case. The nothing-much gesture of a tiny creature that has endured the winter. On the lightness of that "pokes out" rides, just as it is, the joy that spring has come.

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