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I have found these samurai death poems to be pretty interesting when contemplating one's mortality. https://www.samurai-archives.com/deathq.html https://www.sa
by touchofevil 10y ago
I have found these samurai death poems to be pretty interesting when contemplating one's mortality.
https://www.samurai-archives.com/deathq.html https://www.samurai-archives.com/deathq.html
- scott_karana 10y agoYikes. They're especially poignant/depressing when you consider that those men truly died moments after writing or uttering them. There is very little emotional distance from the end... :-/
- touchofevil 10y agoMy favorite on is by Uesugi Kenshin. "Even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake; A life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream; I know not what life is, nor death. Year in year out-all but a dream. Both Heaven and Hell are left behind; I stand in the moonlit dawn, Free from clouds of attachment."