Japanese Death Poems
You can find a collection of them here here.
I rather fancied this one from Kozan Ichikyo, who died February 12, 1360, at 77 :
I rather fancied this one from Kozan Ichikyo, who died February 12, 1360, at 77 :
Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.
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