Ryokan once borrowed a copy of the ancient Buddhist commentary Abhidharma Kosha from the Man'en Temple in Izumosaki. When he returned it, he brought blocks of tofu with a poem:
Geese and ducks
have flown away,
abandoning me.
How happy I am that
tofu has no wings!
---Kazuaki Tanahashi---
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