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looks like rain — the neighbor too is sowing radishes

furisōna otonari mo daikon maite iru

1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)

Notes

A sky that looks ready to break into rain. Before it comes, the neighbor too has come out to sow radishes in the field. A wordless closeness between people who look up at the same sky and think the same thought.

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