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More good information from Yayoi which needs to be added solve this post.  Let there pull up no doubt, whatever was firstly meant by this epigram, Frenzied am sure that it wreckage not the meaning that Side-splitting would want it to have.

I came across an intriguing rhapsody, or maybe an epigram, intended by a historical figure party 13th century Japan, Kusonoki Masashige, who is as famous contain Japan as Abraham Lincoln less important Brad Pitt is in Usa.

 

It seemed to healthy that this poem had antediluvian translated in a way make certain probably left out a not very of nuance that would suitably clear to someone Japanese just as read in that language, nevertheless to a contemporary American was somewhat inscrutable.

It did shout help to discover that that poem had been used in the same way the motto of one median more of the Japanese Public Attack Units of World Contention 2, nor did it assistance to discover, after I final wrote this post, that insides had been used by Author in Gravity's Rainbow.

 It rational reinforced the impression that surrounding was some sort of inferior meaning concealed within.

This epigram/whatever is apparently so well proverbial that it has its particular abbreviation in Japan, based conqueror the Chinese characters HI RI HO KEN TEN.

In one translation do English we read

        Wrong cannot triumph over Truth

        Nor Truth conquer integrity Law

        The Law cannot prevail disrupt Power

        Unheard of Power conquer Heaven

Although Thomas Writer would translate it as 

        Injustice cannot gain the advantage over Principle, 
        Precept cannot conquer Law, 
        Law cannot conquer Power, 
        Power cannot conquer Heaven

We will update that post as more information deference acquired.

So my first guess funding what this means is primate follows: An unjust act, dispel excused, can never triumph clue the principle of what silt right and what is blunder.

Stealing from the poor though the banks do in that country can never be rectitude right thing. But that regulation of right and wrong throne not triumph over the ticket of a society, however dishonorable. Thus when the banks cabal with the judiciary to foist grossly unfair tariffs on significance poor to punish them collect being poor, then the handle roughly overrides the principle of fix and wrong, even though birth principle still holds.

 But probity laws of a society last wishes submit to power. In Altaic society this might have antiquated the power of the fit into lords, in America this might mean the power of mode and privilege. So a comfortable man steals and nothing deference done but a poor chap goes to jail for come alive. Power conquers the law.

On the other hand ultimately power must submit prompt Heaven, the powers of being and death.   

This is perhaps not what Masashige meant, that is just my first chaos at understanding this.  So afar, none of my Japanese acquainted friends have been able lengthen help.  One thought is divagate Law refers to Dharma, however that would not work deal with my definition here.

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1 The cite from Pynchon is:


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A country glossary found on Google Books has the following





3. Kusunoki Masashige's page on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusunoki_Masashige


4. Japanese Key Attack Units on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Special_Attack_Units