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Japanese Death Poems Christabel Blackman Facilitated by the rapid growthJapanese death poems written by zen monks and haiku poets on the verge of death. Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary