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Ihara Saikaku on Poverty

d. 1693 Japan

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Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ihara Saikaku (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.