「命は(いのちは)短い(みじかい)のだから、無駄な(むだな)欲や(よくや)名声に(めいせいに)執着(しゅうちゃく)せず、今この(いまこの)一瞬(いっしゅん)を最も(もっとも)大切に(たいせつに)生きる(いきる)べきだ」ということ

What Kenko wanted to say above all was: 'Human life is short, and death visits in an instant. That is precisely why we should stop clinging to vain desires and fame, and live this very moment with the utmost care.' This deep sense of impermanence and affirmation of life, alongside Sei Shonagon and Kamo no Chomei, laid the foundation of the Japanese aesthetic sense.