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This is how Japan's national epic (The Tale of the Heike) opens: 04/16/26(Thu)20:49:37 No.18434234
This is how Japan's national epic (The Tale of the Heike) opens: 04/16/26(Thu)20:49:37 No.18434234
This is how Japan's national epic (The Tale of the Heike) opens: Anonymous 04/16/26(Thu)20:49:37 No.18434234 [Reply]▶
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>"The sound of the Gion Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sāla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night; the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind."
Isn't that hauntingly beautiful?
All children in Japan learn to recite it from memory at school.
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