the wind blows through from the sea — onion flowers
kaze wa umi kara fukinukeru negibōzu
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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The wind off the sea sweeps through the field with nothing to block it. The flowering onions line up their round heads and sway in it. The scent of the spring tide and the comical shapes of the flowers stand side by side — a bright scene of the open field.