I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.
身は風葉の似るものもなし
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Ichiyō Higuchi
Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896) was a pioneering Japanese woman writer whose 'miracle fourteen months' of creativity produced masterpieces including 'Child's Play' and 'Troubled Waters.' Despite dying of tuberculosis at just 24, she became the first woman depicted on modern Japanese currency, appearing on the 5,000-yen note.
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人間五十年、下天の内をくらぶれば、夢幻のごとくなり。
-- Oda Nobunaga
If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.
-- Sanada Yukimura
I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-- Cao Cao
Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones.
-- Scipio Africanus
閑山島月明夜上戍楼、撫大刀深愁時
-- Yi Sun-sin