死しんで花はな実みが咲さくものか
Meanings
Expression
Proverb
1. once you're dead, that's it
Kanji used
death
flower
real
blossom
Composed of
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
flowers and fruit; blossom and fruit; name and reality; form and content; appearance and substance
to bloom; to flower; to blossom; (arch.) to rise up (of breaking waves)