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Tsugen Jakurei was a Japanese Zen monk and poet, known as one of the main disciples of Gasan.

✵ 1322 – 1391
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Tsugen Jakurei Quotes

“From the day of my coming hither
Full seventy years have passed.
Now, setting out on my final path
My two legs trample the sky.”

Tsugen Jakurei

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6; Cited : Sushila Blackman. Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die. 2005. p. 66