Moriya Sen’an Poems
We are creating these pages to serves as a list of poems by Moriya Sen’an as we carry out more research, as well as the numerous translations these poems have in English.
We will group them into the literature they comes from.
Should we not known where they come from yet, you will find them under the sub-heading ‘Unsure Location.’
Unsure Location
| Japanese text | Romanized Japanese | English translation |
|---|---|---|
| 我死なば 酒屋の瓶の 下にいけよ もしや雫の もりやせんなん | Ware shinaba sakaya no kame no shita ni ikeyo moshi ya shizuku no mori ya sen nan | Bury me when I die beneath a wine barrel in a tavern. with luck the cask will leak. |
Footnotes
1. Hoffman, Y. (1986) ”Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death”. Tuttle Publishing.
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