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Japanese Death Poems Christabel Blackman in a performance the veryJapanese 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