No. 54
Misfortune
身同意不同
月蝕暗長空
輪雖常在手
魚水未相逢
In English
- Together in body but not in mind
- the moon is eclipsed, the wide sky dark
- though the wheel stays ever in your hand
- fish and water have yet to meet
- Meaning
- The key image is fish and water in the last line, a match as natural as breathing. Side by side yet not of one mind, under an eclipsed moon, Misfortune here suggests not rushing to form new ties until that kind of fit appears.
- What to do today
- Listen to someone nearby all the way to the end without cutting in.
- A word from the capybara
- Fish do fine wherever there is water, so a meeting will come eventually.
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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