lined up, the bamboo shoots turning into bamboo
narande takenoko take ni naritsutsu
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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The bamboo shoots that sprang up in a row stretch taller day by day, turning into bamboo. The midway form of the bamboo famed for how fast it grows. The present-tense phrasing "turning into" copies, just as it is, the momentum of life.