Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ueda Akinari

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese author Ueda Akinari.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Ueda Akinari

Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th-century Japan. He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Ugetsu Monogatari and Harusame Monogatari, are central to the canon of Japanese literature.

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.
The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?
Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart. — © Ueda Akinari
Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.
Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
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