Doyu

Myoken Doyu (1201 - February 5, 1256) was a thirteenth century Japanese poet, who went from Japan to Sung-China. Quotes Fifty-six years, above Buddhas, Patriarchs,I've stood mid-air.Now I announce my final journey-Daily sun breaks from the eastern ridge. Lucien Stryk. Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 95. In all my six and fifty yearsNo miracles occurred.For the Buddhas and the Great Ones of the FaithI have questions in my heart.And if I say,"Today, this hourI leave the world,"There's nothing in it. Day after day,Does not the sun rise in the east? Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6 Quotes about Doyu Myoken Doyu, (1201-1256)... also came to Sung-China from Japan. Yiqiao Gu. History of Zen. 1979. p. 81 And here is the 13th-century master Doyu's death poem:... The Japanese masters composed not only enlightenment and death poems in Chinese verse forms, they often wrote of important Zen Poetry. Susan Porterfield, ‎Lucien Stryk. Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk. 1993. p. 123 Doyu's poem is pure metaphor, giving with remarkable precision a sense of the gravity of his emotion: like the sun which daily comes and goes, the poet has come, will go—after a life of standing “mid-air,” contemplative withdrawal. Lucien Stryk, ‎Takashi Ikemoto. Zen Poems of China and Japan: The Crane's Bill. 2007. p. 89. External links Q116482757 Category:Articles with no corresponding English Wikipedia article Category:Poets from Japan Category:13th century deaths