No. 3
Misfortune
愁悩損忠良
青霄一炷香
雖然防小過
閑慮学時長
In English
- Worry wears down even the loyal and good
- a single stick of incense rises to the blue sky
- still, guard against small missteps
- and learn, in quiet, that time runs long
- Meaning
- Misfortune here is a quiet kind: the poem worries less about disaster than about small slips. Like a single thread of incense rising into a clear sky, it asks for patience, and accepting that things take time is the lesson it offers.
- What to do today
- Double-check one small detail you have been meaning to look at.
- A word from the capybara
- Like incense smoke, it is fine to drift upward very slowly.
What 'Misfortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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