"No single bone in my body is holy - It is but an ash heap of stinking bones. Dig a deep hole and there bury these remains Thus, not a grain of dust will stain The green mountains."
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Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
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Shumpo Soki
Shumpo Soki (春浦宗熙, 1409 - January 14, 1498) was a Japanese visual artist and a poet, who was a disciple of the Daitokuji priest Yoso Soi.
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