“I saw the moon as well
and now, world,
'truly yours' …”

— Fukuda Chiyo-ni

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

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Tsuki mo mite ware wa kono yo o kashiku kana.

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Japanese writer 1703–1775

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