I can easily pray the Ten Prayers for you, if you will tell me who you are.
REAPER.
To tell you the truth—I am one of the family of Lord Atsumori.
PRIEST.
One of Atsumori’s family? How glad I am!
Then the priest joined his hands (he kneels down) and prayed:—
NAMU AMIDABU.
Praise to Amida Buddha!
“If I attain to Buddhahood,
In the whole world and its ten spheres
Of all that dwell here none shall call on my name
And be rejected or cast aside.”
CHORUS.
“Oh, reject me not!
One cry suffices for salvation,
Yet day and night
Your prayers will rise for me.
Happy am I, for though you know not my name,
Yet for my soul’s deliverance
At dawn and dusk henceforward I know that you will pray.”