To a friend at the foot of Mount Kazan.
at last i find the house — the evening cicadas
yōyaku tazuneatete kanakana
1939 · Last long journey
Sōmokutō · Heart for the Road (Tabigokoro)
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He has finally located the house of a friend who lives at the foot of a mountain. Into his relieved ears falls the kanakana of the evening cicadas. He must have arrived at dusk. The labor of the search and the ease of arriving are gathered up in the cicadas' cry.