Nr Pag: 366
ISBN: 9780804831796
Dimensiuni: l: 12.7cm | H: 17.53cm
Although the consciousness of death is in most cultures very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life.