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Together with an old vagrant.

spreading the grass we share a boxed lunch, then right and left

kusa o shiite obentō wakete tabete migi hidari

1939 · The last long journey
Sōmokutō · Heart for the Road (Tabigokoro)

Notes

He fell in with an old vagrant, and they spread the grass and shared a boxed lunch. The meal done, they part, one to the right and one to the left. Just that much of a meeting and a parting. The three characters "right, left" say all there is to say about the shape of a traveler's chance ties.

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