all around me the grasses bloom as they please
mi no mawari wa hoshiimama naru kusa no saku
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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Around the hut, grasses tended by no one grow rampant as they please and put out their flowers. In the word "as they please" there is no note of reproach. He lives affirming, just as it is, the grasses' willful way of being.