Lonely Wing

Leaf 36 – Looking Back

 

In 2003, I spent a crisp, cold Christmas Day on my own, idly wandering around the temples at Kamakura. Engaku- ji is a Buddhist temple in Kita-Kamakura which features in several noted works of Japanese literature, such as ‘Mon’ (1910) by Soseki Natsume, and ‘Thousand Cranes’ (1952) by Kawabata Yasunari. I believe Soseki also spent time here on retreat, studying Buddhism and writing haiku.

 

 

On a lonely wing

– the cry of the kite

over Engaku-ji.

 

 

 

Photograph by Tim Chamberlain