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clack-clack clack-clack — what are they weaving — a fine spring day

tonkara tonkara nani oru uraraka

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

Notes

On a bright, gentle spring day the sound of a loom comes clacking from somewhere. What can they be weaving? An unseen worker, and only the peaceful sound. The bounce of the onomatopoeia became the poem itself.

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