See You in the Next Life

• 1. the verb used here 'kiru 切る ' has a lot of possible meaning like 'cut', 'traverse' or 'let go', so you could think about how all those meanings could fit
• 2. Musashi was a famous swordsman renowned for his strange tactics and undefeated record
• 3. samsara is the cycle of birth and reincarnation in several Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. In Buddhism one can exit the cycle by becoming enlightened enough to ascend to nirvana
• 4. this line uses two seperate 4 kanji idioms, the first would more directly mean something like 'electric light, firelight' meaning 'instant' and the second translates more directly to something like 'fall seven times, collapse eight' meaning to suffer greatly
• 5. the term I translated as 'mind clouded by sin' is another Buddhist term Bonnou, or Klesha
• 6. this line mentions yet another concept from Buddhism 'shikukakku' which refer to types of suffering
• 7. this line contains a phrase that means a bribe but translates more directly to 'beneath the sleeve' probably in reference to the fact things were easily hidden in the sleeves of traditional clothing