Before the memorial tablet of my friend Tatara.
the peach has set its fruit and you are already gone
momo ga mi to nari kimi sude ni nashi
1939 · Last long journey
Sōmokutō · Heart for the Road (Tabigokoro)
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Written before the memorial tablet of the same friend, Tatara. The peach blossoms he had willed to open have turned to fruit, but his friend is no longer here. The sureness of the ripened fruit quietly mourns the man who did not live to see the season come.