story: Wealth and Poverty (Himpuku-ron)
author: Ueda Akinari
year: 1776
where: bed
note: from Ugetsu Monogatari or Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Routledge Revivals) : A Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Collection of Tales of the Supernatural, Routledge, 2012
a line: “If a man is idle, he can in time consume even Mt T’ai. In the end he can drink dry even the rivers and oceans.”
extra line: “It’s impossible for any samurai to sleep peacefully on his pillow. As matters stand now, the government seems unlikely to endure. Can anyone bring unity and give the people peace?”
samantha Neugebauer 