SHUKYO 秋挙 - Died on the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month, 1826
SHUKYO 秋挙 - Died on the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month, 1826
Above the fence
a morning glory stretches
still unsatisfied.
"It seems that the morning glory, like man, is never satisfied with its lot, and when it reaches the top of the fence along which it climbs, it keeps shooting upward where there is nothing to support it."
Taken from Japanese Death Poems by Yoel Hoffman