Loofah Day

Loofah Day

the loofah gourd blooms while he chokes to death on phlegm a buddha   Hechima saite / tan no tsumarishi / hotoke kana 糸瓜咲て痰のつまりし仏かな This is one of three poems which Masaoka Shiki scrawled on sheets of paper he used for painting just before he died at around 2 in...