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Had I not known
that I was dead
already
I would have mourned
my loss of life.

Stabbed while bathing, Ota Dokan (1432-86), a scholar of military arts and a poet, was fatally wounded. He calmly recited this tanka (a short form of Japanese death-poem) while clutching the murder weapon while it was still sheathed in his body! (via nirvikalpa)

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