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" "My sword leans against the sky.
With its polished blade I'll behead
The Buddha and all of his saints.
Let the lightning strike where it will.
Shumpo Soki (春浦宗熙, 1409 - January 14, 1498) was a Japanese visual artist and a poet, who was a disciple of the Daitokuji priest Yoso Soi.
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At times I supported the sky, at times the earth;
At times I turned into a dragon, at times to a snake.
I wandered at will through the cycles of life and of death.
All the fathers of our faith I took into my mouth.
I give as I will and I take as I will. I slash the leopard with my teeth;
My spirit smashes mountains.