I will tell him. Do you wait here.
(He goes over to NOBUTOSHI and whispers with him, then comes back to the BROTHERS.)
Come this way.
(NOBUTOSHI comes to meet them, covering his face with a fan.)
NOBUTOSHI.
Listen, gentlemen, I desire an explanation from you.
BROTHER.
What would you know?
NOBUTOSHI.
It is this. They alone can be called priests round whose fingers is twisted the rosary of Tenfold Power, who are clad in cloak of Forbearance, round whose shoulders hangs the stole of Penitence. Such is everywhere the garb of Buddha’s priests. I know no other habit. But you, I see, carry a round fan tied to your pillar-staff. By what verse do you justify the wearing of a fan?