放哉居士の作に和してIn answer to a poem by the layman Hōsai.
鴉啼いてわたしも一人a crow caws and I too am alone
からすないて わたしもひとりkarasu naite watashi mo hitori
昭和初期 放哉居士の作に和してEarly Shōwa era · Answering a poem by the layman Hōsai
『草木塔』鉢の子Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
同じ自由律の俳人で盟友だった尾崎放哉の「烏啼いてわたしも一人」への静かな呼応として知られる句。鴉も一羽、わたしも一人。孤独が孤独のまま、どこかで誰かとつながっている。A quiet response to Ozaki Hōsai's 'a crow caws and I too am alone.' Hōsai, who died in 1926, was a fellow poet of free-verse haiku and Santōka's kindred spirit. One crow, and I too am one: solitude, left as solitude, is somewhere joined to another.