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(Wikipedia: Kamo no Chomei by Kikuchi Yosai)
Poem based on the above’s An Account of My Hut:
If you live next door
to the wealthy, you will be
mostly uneasy,
for you will have to tone down
your own highs and lows,
or become a sycophant,
in the knowledge that
you are not even rated.
If you live in town,
there are disadvantages
and, in the country,
public transport is lacking.
You can’t win as thieves like both
isolation and big crowds.