"生も死も、借りしものにはなかりけり ただあるものは、神のおもわく sei mo shi mo, karishi mono ni wa nakarikeri tada aru mono wa, shin no o mo waku"
— Ōnishi Tama

January 1, 1970

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Religious leaders from Japan
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Life and death – nothing is borrowed. The only thing that exists is God's will. — (This poem is also inscribed on a stone stele at Honbushin's main shrine on the summit of Mount Kami.)