Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659 - 1719) skrev en gang dette:

Mina hito wa
Edo e yukuramu
aki no kure.

Ukiyo kara
nanri arouka
yamazakura.

Oversatt til engelsk:

Everyone is rushing
off to fashionable Edo -
late autumn.

Wild cherry blossoms,
how many leagues are they
from this transient world?