1831(The second year of Tempo)

 On January the sixth, at the age of seventy-four,Ryokan left this world.A poet friend,Teishinni,

a woman priest who lived near him,watched.

Showing the back

Showing the front

Falling maple leaves

 Ryokan composed a great many tanka and haiku, but this is the last haiku he said.

His favorite toy--a child's ball--lay at his bedside.