Waka Poet

🇯🇵Sakutarō Hagiwara

Literature

1886–1942

"The dog that howls at the moon howls suspicious and fearful of his own shadow. To the dog's ailing heart, the moon is an ominous puzzle like a pallid ghost. The dog howls far into the distance."

🇯🇵Kamo no Chōmei

Literature

1153–1216

"People respond to these disasters in terms of their own experience. Unless the disaster has struck them personally, their circumstances, their environment, it is dismissed as a superficial thing."