Tan-Zan1 wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendant to mail them. Then he passed away.
The cards read:
I am departing from this world.
This is my last announcement.
Tan-Zan.
July 27, 1892.
Notes:
1. Hara Tanzan (December 5, 1819 – July 27, 1892) was a Soto Buddhist monk, head monk at the Saijoji temple in Odawara[1] and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo during the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods.