#yoshidakenko — Public Fediverse posts

A power-hungry emperor and a literary monk offer different frames for understanding the end of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/15/japan/history/kenko-emperor-go-daigo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #godaigo #kamakuraperiod #yoshidakenko #kenko #bakufu

Uncertainty

If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

~ Yoshida Kenkō

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