Re-read this. This collection of premodern Japanese senryu remains accessible and highly readable a century after they were written. I find this concept of ukiyo ("floating world" is the best translators could muster and agree on) fascinating. It's a very Zen Buddhist philosophy that is closely linked to the perspective of "everything is nothing and nothing is everything". The Chinese call it 一切皆空. 既然是空，也就不必太介怀。
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