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''Even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake; +
A man of learning, Kenshin enjoyed poetry and wrote the following piece in anticipation of his own death in 1578…
A man of learning, Kenshin enjoyed poetry and wrote the following piece in anticipation of his own death in 1578…
− Even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake;
A life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream;
A life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream;
I know not what life is, nor death.
I know not what life is, nor death.
Year in year out-all but a dream.
Year in year out-all but a dream.
Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
− I stand in the moonlit dawn,
+ I stand in the moonlit dawn,
− Free from clouds of attachment.12''
+ Free from clouds of attachment.12
