the more the rain falls the brighter the leopard-plant flowers
ame fureba furu hodo ni tsuwa no hana
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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The more the winter rain falls, the more vivid the yellow flowers of the leopard plant become. Shut in by the rain, he resents it not at all, but watches instead the color the rain deepens. Beyond good or bad weather, the flower simply blooms. A poem for a rainy morning.