Ihara Saikaku Quote

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.


Book I, ch. 1. - The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)


Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.