"Amenimomakezu"(Get over the Rain)by Kenji Miyazawa
interpretation Sunmmary
It goes "I am in a hut in the shade of grove.
"Grove -> Globe" suggests the earth.
"Hut -> Heart" suggests a heart.
Therefore,"I" represents " the heart of the earth."
Unpolished rice(in Japanese "Geemmai" -> "Gem maind").
Miso -> 3 so("mi"means 3 in Japanese)
-> San so(3 is is also pronounced"san"),which means oxygen.
Vegetables(Greens -> Grief).
It is Kenji's wish that the heart of the earth is eating more than
enough beautiful mind and oxygen as well as grief hopefully as
little as possible.
Dekunobo(meaning good_for_nothing)can be interpreted as
"Declining ball"(slanting globe). The globe is a clay figure and
so it is only natural that it may be called "the earth ball "
North, south , east,and west are the characteristics of the earth.
This poem is "the spiritual song for the earth."
"Deku" from "Dekunobou" is the same as "deku" from Kafka's "Odradek".
"I" in the universe,common to both of them, is the basics of interpretation.
By the way Odradek means wasteland in the earth, implying "discrinatoin."
1998/3 setsuko.