Shiki Quotes

“Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles."

(The Dharma Bums, Chap. 8)”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Kiriwar: "I thought I smelled shit stinking up the hallway."
Shiki: "I butchered a hyena...maybe that's why. That's what you do to a dog that betrays its master's wishes, right?”
― Suguro Chayamachi, Togainu No Chi 1