「災害にあう時節には、災害にあうがよく候、死ぬ時節には、死ぬがよろしく候、 是災難をのがるる妙法にて候」 we should accept disaster when the time of disaster comes, we shuld accept death when the time of death comes, this is the mistry strategy to avoid the disaster, Ryoukan said. ============================================================ 以下は、「良寛　短歌俳句選」（考古堂）の一部である。 Some selected Haikus (S.Goldstein, S.Mizuguchi and F.Kitajima, "RYOKAN:SELECTED TANKA HAIKU") 「盗人にとり残されし窓の月」 left behind by the thief: the moon in my window 「ゆく秋のあはれを誰に語らまし」 about the pathos of departing autumn, whom can I tell? 「吾が宿は竹の柱に菰すだれ、強いて食いませ一杯の酒」 my home is made of bamboo posts and rush blinds: please tolerate these and be content with a cup of sake 「��乞ふとわが来しかども春の野に、菫摘みつつ時を経にけり」 though I came out with the intention of begging for rice, I've spent my time picking and plucking violets in the spring field 「濁る世を澄めともよはずわがなりに、澄まして見する谷川の水」 without even staying to the tainted world, "Be clean!" the water of the mountain stream purifies itself on its own 「神馬藻に酒に山葵に賜るは、春は寂しくあせらじとなり」 red seaweed and sake and Japanease horseradish-with such gifts my New York will not now be lonely or sparse! 「行く秋の哀れを誰に語たらまし、藜籠にれて帰る夕暮れ」 about the pathos of departing autumn, whom can I tell? on my way home at dusk, some goosefoot plants in my basket 「何となく心さやぎて寝ねらず、明日は春の初めと思えば」 I know not why I cannot get to sleep with my heart pounding- to think tomorrow will be the first day of spring 「秋風にひとり立ちたる姿かな」 in the autumn wind the figure of a man standing alone 「形見とて何か残さむ春は花夏ほととぎす秋は紅葉ば」 I would like to leave something as a memory: flowers in spring, cuckoos in summer, tinted leaves in fall 「焚くほどは風がもて来る落ち葉かな」 for my fire the wind brings enough fallen leaves 「良寛に辞世あるかと人問はば、南無阿弥陀仏と言うと答へよ」 should people ask if Ryoukan will leave a deathbed poem, say he said, "Namu-amida-butsu" 「柿もぎの金玉寒し秋の風」 the persimmon-gatherer-- his balls are cold in the fall wind