Musō Soseki Quotes

Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi , a honorific conferred to him by Emperor Go-Daigo. His mother was the daughter of Hōjō Masamura , seventh Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate. Wikipedia  

✵ 1275 – 20. October 1351
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Musō Soseki Quotes

“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.”

Musō Soseki

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6

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