the moon unseen — moonlit water brimming full
tsuki wa mienai tsukiakari no mizu manman
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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The moon itself cannot be seen. Yet its light is full, and the water stands brimming, faintly aglow. The brightness of a thing without form spreads across the water.