Misao Fujimura

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Misao Fujimura was a Japanese philosophy student who was against the industrialisation of Japan, but is probably more known as a poet nowadays, as he is remembered due to his farewell poem:

"Delicate line between heaven and earth... The calm of the ages, all the world's worth. Such minuscule measure, while we think it so grand... Just five specks of smallness, This soft quiet land. So frail and so fleeting, in the end you will see Simple dreams were Horatio's philosophy.

For all the truth, all creation, all secrets of yore Can be told in an instant, by then they're no more.

Ah, The Unexplainable All worries unsettled, heartache unresolved... All questions unanswered, with death, shall be solved.

We already teeter, this sheer cliff so high. When we fall to corruption, insecurities die.

To end is to start; to surrender is to know.

Despair and depression, together they grow. Hope shall meet hopeless when there's nowhere to go."

This he wrote at the age of 18, when taking his own life by jumping down the Kegon Falls, year 1903. It is a translation from the original language; Japanese.

It is said that this poem was Misao's suicide note, and it has become a tradition amongst certain people in some groups to recite this poem when meaning to commit suicide.

This poem and Misao are referenced (and the poem is translated) in the graphic novel series GTO, by Tohru Fujisawa.