Ueda Akinari
Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th century Japan. He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and Harusame Monogatari ("Tales of Spring Rain"), are central to the canon of Japanese literature.
“Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.”
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“...wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.”
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“The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.Long night clear evening--what are they for?”
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“In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.”
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“Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.”
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