https://jdsalaro.com 2025-12-26T16:36:53.684091+00:00 ABlog @jdsalaro https://jdsalaro.com/bookmark/poem/ryokan-nothing-better-worse/ 2023-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 Jayson Salazar Rodriguez <p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dkan">Read more on Wikiquote</a></p> <p>This poem by Ryōkan was quoted by Alan Watts<a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#alanwatts" id="id1" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a> in one of his lectures<a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#wattspoemquote" id="id2" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>2<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>; this was what originally motivated me to look for it in full and reproduce it here. The source of the painting is not related to Ryōkan<a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#ukiyoeorgtoshiyoshida" id="id3" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>3<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>.</p> <img alt="https://jdsalaro.com/_images/toshi-yoshida-birds-of-the-seasons-set-of-four-horizontal.webp" src="https://jdsalaro.com/_images/toshi-yoshida-birds-of-the-seasons-set-of-four-horizontal.webp" /></p> <script type="text/x-thebe-config"> { requestKernel: true, binderOptions: { repo: "binder-examples/jupyter-stacks-datascience", ref: "master", }, codeMirrorConfig: { theme: "abcdef", mode: "python" }, kernelOptions: { name: "python3", path: "./blog/tag" }, predefinedOutput: true } </script> <script>kernelName = 'python3'</script>

Read more on WikiquoteThis poem by Ryōkan was quoted by Alan Watts1 in one of his lectures2; this was what originally motivated me to look for it in full and reproduce it here. The source of the painting is not related to Ryōkan3.

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