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After the down-and-out poet Shinmon Aoki dropped out of Japan's prestigious Waseda University, he entered the funeral industry by chance and has been doing so for nearly forty years. Seeing all kinds of dead people every day, as well as their relatives who are separated from them, Aoki went from fear at first, to calmness, to compassion, and finally realized the boundary between life and death. Using both hands to allow the deceased to say goodbye to his relatives and friends with a peaceful, true and beautiful face is a responsibility and obligation for the embalmer, as well as morality and compassion... The work uses the poet's brushwork and the wisdom of the philosopher to describe the gentle joys and sorrows of life and death under the starry sky clearly and broadly...