going to beg for rice in the wind
kaze no naka kome morai ni iku
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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The rice has run out, and he goes off through the wind to beg for more. A life that leans on the kindness of others he sets down plainly — neither ashamed nor dressed up — simply as fact.