No. 31
Future fortune
鯤鯨未変時
且守碧潭淇
風雲興巨浪
一息過天涯
In English
- While the great fish has yet to transform
- keep to the deep green pool for now
- when wind and cloud raise huge waves
- in a single breath it crosses to the sky's edge
- Meaning
- The first half keeps the great fish still, waiting unchanged in a deep green pool; the second has wind and cloud raising huge waves that carry it to the edge of the sky in one breath. For now, the poem seems to say, gather strength and let the moment come to you.
- What to do today
- Do one small piece of groundwork for something you are looking forward to.
- A word from the capybara
- Staying perfectly still at the bottom of a pool is a talent worth having.
What 'Future fortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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