Fuminori Kobayashi Quotes

Even when the moon shrinks and disappears, it shows itself again gradually. When ancient people saw that eternal cycle of death and recovery, they prayed to the moon for their own rebirth. Rebirth. Will I be reborn? ... If I were reborn, what would I become? ~ Fuminori Nakamura

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning ~ Kobayashi Issa

Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories ~ Kobayashi Issa

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet - ~ Kobayashi Issa

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop ~ Kobayashi Issa

I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

Why does the subconscious mind make people steal? Why does it have to be stealing? Don't you think it's something deep-rooted in our nature? ~ Fuminori Nakamura

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes ~ Kobayashi Issa

History matters. ~ Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel. ~ Kobayashi Issa

[H]uman beings ... make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts ... the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Fate is like the relationship between the strong and the weak, don't you think? Look at religion, for example. The Israelites, who worshipped Jehovah - why were they afraid of him? Because their god was powerful, that's why. Everyone who believes in gods fears them to some extent. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. ~ Kobayashi Issa

When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

Life is a mystery. But listen. Why did I turn up in your life in the first place? Do you believe in fate? Was your fate controlled by me, or was being controlled by me your fate? But in the end, aren't they just two sides of the same coin? ~ Fuminori Nakamura

THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

I just want to compete and do what I love. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Though small, the shrine has a long history. In 1333 - the Third Year of the Genko era - Lord Takeshigé Kikuchi ascended to it in order to implore the divine favor before going into battle. Victory was his, and in gratitude he had the shrine rebuilt. According to tradition, he himself carved the Worship Image, reciting a triple prayer after each stroke. This represented the god as standing on the mountain peak with one hand raised, gazing at the armed host he had blessed. It was an image of victory.
Now, however, the morning after the rising, early on the auspicious Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, the time of the Chrysanthemum Festival, there were gathered around the shrine forty-six hunted survivors of a defeated force. Some standing, some sitting, they stared blankly about them, though the penetrating autumn chill made their wounds sting. The clear light of the rising sun cast a striped pattern as it shone down through the branches of the few old cedars that surrounded the shrine. Birds were singing. The air was fresh and clear. As for signs of last night's sanguinary combat, these were visible in the soiled and bloodstained garments, the haggard visages, and the eyes that burned like live embers.
Among the forty-six were Unshiro Ishihara, Kageki Abé, Kisou Onimaru, Juro Furuta, Tsunetaro Kobayashi, the brothers Gitaro and Gigoro Tashiro, Tateki Ura, Mitsuo Noguchi, Mikao Kashima, and Kango Hayami. Every man was silent, sunk deep in thought, looking off at the sea, ~ Yukio Mishima

In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends ~ Kobayashi Issa

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity. ~ Kobayashi Issa

I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

A world of grief and pain,
but the flowers bloom
even then ~ Kobayashi Issa

Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people's music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it's not just culture - these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they're searching for things to despise. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

There is no stranger under the cherry tree. ~ Kobayashi Issa

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting ~ Kobayashi Issa

Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow ~ Kobayashi Issa

But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there'd be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there's one starving child in the world, all property is theft. ~ Fuminori Nakamura

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! ~ Kobayashi Issa

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say. ~ Kobayashi Issa