Setting my affairs in order.
burn it all and only this much ash — the wind blows
yaite shimaeba kore dake no hai o kaze fuku
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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Headed "putting my affairs in order." Burn the things he has spent years writing, and all that remains is this much ash. Even that ash the wind blows and scatters away. The last tidying-up of a man who owns nothing.