Author: Ryƫnosuke Akutagawa
Cited by
- David Peace (1)
- IN: Patient X (2018) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Among the palm flowers, among the bamboo,
Buddha has already fallen asleep.
By the roadside, a withered fig tree,
Christ, too, seems to be dead.
Yet we need to rest,
Even before the stage set,
(If we look behind that set,
We find only a patched-up canvas)
FROM: "The Collected Works of Tock", in Kappa, (1927), Poem, Japan