No. 37
Half fortune
陰靉未能通
求名亦未逢
幸然須有変
一箭中双鴻
In English
- Under overcast skies, nothing gets through
- seeking a name, you have yet to find it
- but by good fortune a change will come
- and one arrow strikes two wild geese
- Meaning
- The image to remember is the single arrow that brings down two wild geese in the last line. While the sky stays clouded and recognition has not arrived, the task is to wait for the change and be ready the moment it comes.
- What to do today
- Look over your plans for one errand that could take care of two things at once.
- A word from the capybara
- Waiting on the grass until both birds come flying over.
What 'Half fortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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