Japanese Death Poems (Dark Spoken Word Collaboration)

my mother really resisted in reading these but I was relentless (I like these poems very much)

JAPANESE DEATH POEMS:

Minamoto Yorimasa (1104-1180)

Like a rotten log
half buried in the ground
my life, which
has not flowered, comes
to this sad end.


Ota Dokan (1432-1486)

Had I not known
that I was dead
already
I would have mourned
my loss of life


Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598)
My life
came like dew
disappears like dew.
All of Naniwa
is dream after dream.


Video Produced by Lila Sakura

Music by Tmac
http://www.delvinshademusic.com

Special thanks to LittlePatton (& Medic Studios)for permission to use old war footage.
And also special thanks to Claudio Sodi (LACLAPA producciones, Mexico) for permissions to use the Hara Kiri scenes!


http://www.myspace.com/DarcKontinents

Category:

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Tags:

• Japanese
• Death
• Poems
• Spoken
• Word
• Poetry
• Hara
• Kiri
• Suicide
• Kamikaze
• Samarai
• Darc
• Kontinents
• Lila
• Sakura
• Tmac

[afrokid53]

wow :O im doing poetry for my english coursework im doing a modern take on the japanese death poem, these are the best ive heard!

[LilaSakura]

thank you (:

[LittlePatton]

Amazing video! Great job.

I've never heard anything like this poem before, it's quite interesting.

[LilaSakura]

Thanks LittlePatton couldn't have done it the way I saw in my head without your amazing war footage! Thanks again!

[MidnightJazzLover23]

Lila never fails to make a video worth watching :). Very interesting and unique, as usual.

[WorldWartimeSStories]

Not too bad. :)

[artnouveauiswar]

Brilliant! I Loved it! Come Take a look at my dark poetry, I have a feeling you'll like it (:

[jbl456]

Excellent work, really unique!

[artvistech]

very cool!! Thanks for sharing these wonderful poems.  I like the way you put it all together.

[seaofclay]

VERY  GOOD!!!

[LilaSakura]

Hi Silent Bob, 1) Masaki Kobayashi's "Hara Kiri" film (1962), 2) Old World War II film footage (Medic [Patton]), and 3) Mexican independent film director, Claudio Sodi's "Harakri"

[wp2388]

what movie is this