today's heat — the tobacco shop has no tobacco
kyō no atsusa wa tabakoya ni tabako ga nai
1939–1940 · Matsuyama, Issō-an hermitage
Sōmokutō · The Crow (Karasu)
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Today's heat is so fierce that even the tobacco shop has run out of tobacco. Behind the comedy of measuring heat that way, one glimpses the scarcity of an age when goods were few. A summer day when he cannot even manage a smoke.