home is where the lettuce-and-miso tastes good — being home
furusato wa chisha momi ga umai furusato ni iru
1939 · Last long journey
Sōmokutō · Heart for the Road (Tabigokoro)
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Chisha-momi is a local dish of lettuce leaves dressed in vinegared miso. Home again, the first thing that tastes good is that flavor. Saying "home" twice, the poem's shape holds the plain certainty of being, right now, in one's native place.