The forty-seventh memorial of my mother.
I set out udon — mother, I too will eat
udon sonaete, haha yo, watakushi mo itadakimasuru
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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A poem on the forty-seventh memorial of his mother's death. He offers udon before the altar and speaks to her: mother, I too will eat. When Santōka was ten, his mother took her own life. This is the most direct form his devotion to that mother could take.