Japanese buddhist scholar, doctor of letters (1870–1966).
Born October 18th, 1870 in Hondamachi.
Died June 12th, 1966 at 95 years old in St. Luke's International Hospital (bowel obstruction).
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel