the brightness of the moon — a traveling couple's murmured talk
tsuki no akarusa tabi no meoto no sazamegoto
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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On a bright moonlit night a traveling husband and wife talk softly together. What they murmur cannot be made out. He listens, a little apart, to the loving voices in the moonlight.