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Among the other monuments built by Dokan are the Hirakawa Shrine , which is celebrated with a festival on April 24 - 25 . The shrine, located on the Edo castle grounds, is dedicated to Sugawara No Michizane , the deity of poetry and scholarship.

Ota Dokan's Death Poem is as follows:


Kakaru toki

sa koso inochi no

oshikarame

kanete nakimi to

omoishirazuba


Ota Dokan

Had I not known

that I was dead

already

I would have mourned

the loss of my life.


(trans. Yoel Hoffmann)