the mountain's stillness is a white flower
yama no shizukesa wa shiroi hana
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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The mountain is quiet, and in that stillness a white flower blooms. The flower's name is not given. Only its whiteness stands there, like a gauge for measuring the depth of the mountain's silence.