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| Original Title | 川端茅舎句集 |
|---|---|
| Author | 川端 茅舎 |
| Genre | Modern Short Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | This collection unveils a world where fragility and resilience intertwine through fleeting moments of existence. A poet’s decade-long journey, marked by unspoken physical struggles, becomes a meditation on life’s ephemeral beauty—dew clinging to stones, moonlight etching paths through forests, and winter drizzle blurring temple courtyards. Each haiku pulses with quiet audacity, transforming humble subjects—moles burrowing, potatoes simmering, moths trembling in twilight—into luminous fragments of a larger cosmic dance. Nature’s cycles frame vignettes of human tenderness: a novice monk tending a child, farmers bowed under dew’s weight, a beggar’s tobacco glow mirrored in frost. Here, even decay hums with vitality—withered thistles burn like ash at their core, while earthworms serenade primal darkness. The verses shimmer with paradox: suffering and wonder, stillness and motion, the mundane and sacred. Delicate as scattered dewdrops yet anchored by an unyielding spirit, this mosaic invites readers to linger where “clouds of flowers” meet the ache of transience—a testament to finding eternity in breath-sized instants. |
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