Doyu

Myoken Doyu (1201 - February 5, 1256) was a thirteenth century Japanese poet, who went from Japan to Sung-China.

Quotes

 * Fifty-six years, above Buddhas, Patriarchs, I've stood mid-air. Now I announce my final journey- Daily sun breaks from the eastern ridge.
 * . Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 95.


 * In all my six and fifty years No miracles occurred. For the Buddhas and the Great Ones of the Faith I have questions in my heart. And if I say, "Today, this hour I leave the world," There's nothing in it. Day after day, Does not the sun rise in the east?
 * Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6

Quotes about Doyu

 * Myoken Doyu, (1201-1256)... also came to Sung-China from Japan.
 * Yiqiao Gu. History of Zen. 1979. p. 81


 * And here is the 13th-century master Doyu's death poem:... The Japanese masters composed not only enlightenment and death poems in Chinese verse forms, they often wrote of important Zen Poetry.
 * Susan Porterfield, ‎Lucien Stryk. Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk. 1993. p. 123


 * Doyu's poem is pure metaphor, giving with remarkable precision a sense of the gravity of his emotion: like the sun which daily comes and goes, the poet has come, will go—after a life of standing “mid-air,” contemplative withdrawal.
 * , ‎Takashi Ikemoto. Zen Poems of China and Japan: The Crane's Bill. 2007. p. 89.