Kenko Yoshida

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

A certain recluse I know not who once said that no bonds attached him to this life and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.