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Today's offering is from Kobayashi Issa (一茶, lit. "one tea" or "a cup of tea"):

冬籠り

あくびのあとの

念仏かな

Winter seclusion

After a yawn

The Buddha, perhaps?

Heres more about 一茶:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi…

and a link to an archive of his work:

haikuguy.com/issa/searcheng…

Several refer to "New Year's Day" (元日) but he would have observed that later in the year (he lived when Japan was under the 天保暦 — Tenpōreki lunisolar calendar).

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JimD 5d ago

A bit more reflection on the use of this term: 念仏 「ねんぶつ」— a chant or prayer for 阿弥陀 (the Amitabha Buddha):

https://poe.com/s/LnnpZY11jhhqBbpucWdl

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