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an evening of quiet ease — mother spider, baby spider

yūbe nagoyakana oyagumo kogumo

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

Notes

In the evening a mother spider and a baby spider each sit in their webs. That sight alone looks peaceful and warm. The eye of one who lives alone, apart from family, finds a moment's ease in the mother and child of the spiders.

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