“If our life did not fade and vanish like the dews of Adashino’s grave or the drifting smoke from Toribe’s burning grounds, but lingered on forever, how little the world would move us. It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful. Why cling to life which cannot last forever only to arriveContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why Cling to Life to an Ugly Old Age (Yoshida Kenkō)”
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RKS Literature: How to be an Elegant Lover (Yoshida Kenkō)
“The elegant thing is for a lover to wander aimlessly hither and yon, drenched with the frosts or dews of night, tormented by the fears of his parents’ reproaches and the censure of the world, the heart beset with uncertainties, yet for all that sleeping alone often, though always fitfully. On the other hand, heContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to be an Elegant Lover (Yoshida Kenkō)”
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