草をしいておべんたう分けて食べて右左spreading the grass we share a boxed lunch, then right and left

年老いた浮浪者と道づれになり、草を敷いて弁当を分けあって食べた。食べ終われば、右と左へ別れてゆく。それだけの出会いと別れ。「右左」の三文字が、旅の縁のかたちを言い尽くしている。He fell in with an old vagrant, and they spread the grass and shared a boxed lunch. The meal done, they part, one to the right and one to the left. Just that much of a meeting and a parting. The three characters "right, left" say all there is to say about the shape of a traveler's chance ties.