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“According to a certain person, a number of years ago, the late Matsuguma Kyōan told this story:

“In the practice of medicine there is a different treatment according to the Yin and Yang of men and women. There is also a difference in pulse. In the last fifty years, however, men’s pulse has become the same as women’s. Noticing this, in the treatment of eye disease I applied women’s treatment to men and found it suitable. When I observed the application of men’s treatment to men, there was no result. Thus I knew that men’s spirit had weakened and that they had become the same as women, and the end of the world had come. Since I witnessed this with certainty, I kept it a secret."

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (William Scott Wilson, trn.), Hagakure – The Book of the Samurai”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo;William Scott Wilson