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“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
― Ryokan

“Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.”
― Donald Richie, A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan