234Haiku 俳句
分け入っても分け入っても青い山
わけいってもわけいってもあおいやまWakeittemo wakeittemo aoi yama
“However deep I go, and deeper still — blue mountains.”
The meaning
Walking, crossing, and always finding more mountains. The road does not run out — and perhaps that is good news: there will always be somewhere to walk.
At the origin
A free-form haiku by Taneda Santōka (1882-1940), the walking poet, unbound by fixed meter.
The characters
- 分け入って wakeittepushing deeper
- も moeven if
- 分け入って wakeittedeeper still
- も
- 青い
- 山
もParticle“Also, even”: adds or strengthens.
In practice
Accept that there is always one more mountain — and walk anyway.
Themes
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