Yamamoto Kansuke Quotes

[https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazines/peter-campusimage-and-self/ Artist to Artist: Peter Campus—Image and Self], Art in America, 2010.

TAIGEN Sofu (or Sufu) Sessai was a priest and a minister of IMAGAWA Yoshimoto. He was born as a son of IHARA Masamori, senior vassal of the Imagawas and is thought to be related to YAMAMOTO Kansuke, strategist of TAKEDA Harunobu (Shingen). He is one of the ministers in clerical robe in Japanese history.

I raise the mirror of my life
Up to my face: sixty years.
With a swing I smash the reflection -
The world as usual
All in its place.