"Thus have I rolled my life throughout Inside and out, reclined, upright. What is all this? A beating drum A trumpet's blare No more."
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Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
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Muso Soseki
MusÅ Soseki 夢ēŖ ēē³ (1275 ā October 20, 1351) was a Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as MusÅ Kokushi 夢ēŖå½åø« ("national Zen teacher"), a honorific conferred to him by Emperor .
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