sprung up in the graveyard, blooming, how beautiful
haete hakaba no saite utsukushi ya
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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Grass that has sprung up in the graveyard has, before you notice, put out flowers. No one planted it. In the place where the dead lie sleeping, life simply grows, blooms, and is beautiful.