from thicket to pot — one bamboo shoot
yabu kara nabe e takenoko ippon
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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A bamboo shoot dug from the thicket out back goes straight into the pot. No field needed, no purse — the shortest distance from thicket to pot. He sings, brightly and dryly, of a life where tonight's food is this one shoot.