Have a happy halloween everyone! Remember to take down any ninjas you see trick or treating. To help us celebrate this dark holiday please enjoy some Japanese death poems:
Had I not known
that I was dead
already
I would have mourned
my loss of life. -Ota Dokan 1432-1486
Whether one passes on or remains is all the same.
That you can take no one with you is the only difference.
Ah, how pleasant! Two awakenings and one sleep.
This dream of a fleeing world! The roseate hues of early dawn!
-Tokugawa Ieyasu 1542-1616
Like a rotten log
half buried in the ground -
my life, which
has not flowered, comes
to this sad end. -Minamoto Yorimasa 1104-1180
Had I not known
that I was dead
already
I would have mourned
my loss of life. -Ota Dokan 1432-1486
Whether one passes on or remains is all the same.
That you can take no one with you is the only difference.
Ah, how pleasant! Two awakenings and one sleep.
This dream of a fleeing world! The roseate hues of early dawn!
-Tokugawa Ieyasu 1542-1616
Like a rotten log
half buried in the ground -
my life, which
has not flowered, comes
to this sad end. -Minamoto Yorimasa 1104-1180
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