Hideyoshi Poems - Poems about Hideyoshi

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Had I not known I was already dead I might have mourned my own passing. —Ota Dokan, loose transla......

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...THIS WORLD OF DEW This world? Moonlit dew flicked from a crane's bill. —Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Seventy-one? How long can a dewdrop last? ......

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...Today, catching sight of the mallards crying over Lake Iware: Must I too vanish into the clouds? —Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch This world— to what may we compare it? To autum......

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...Atrocious Nobugana will he kill the cuckoo? You, spring rains, sing at eaves, princess heartsick leaves! Nobunaga-evil-minded will kill the cuckoo. Who knows? Maybe a geisha will dabble his heart w......

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