HomeMujo (Transiency)
Mujo is one of Buddhism’s most important world views; it refers to the notion of the transmigration of souls, which holds that every single life inevitably dies and everything is under constant change. Since ancient time it has a chief subject of literature in Japan, and has formed underlying tone of such famous Japanese works as the “Tales of Heik,” the “Ten-Foot-Square Hut,” and the “Essays in Idleness,” in medieval times, and the “Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Basho in the Edo period(1603-1867).
The “Tale of Heike” tells the story of the fall of Heike, the first clan of warriors to enjoy great power: “…(Buddhist teaching)reveals the law that the prosperous must decay, and pride goes before a fall….” And in the “Ten-Foot-Square Hut,” the essay begins with a view of the world as Mujo: “Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same.”
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