Hey, you priest, I have something to say to you!
PRIEST.
What is it you would say to me?
KUMASAKA.
To-day is some one’s birthday. I beg of you to pray for the salvation of his soul.
PRIEST.
I have left the World, and it is my business now to say such prayers; but of whom am I to think when I pray?
KUMASAKA.
There is no need to know his name. He is buried in that tomb over there, among the rushes to this side of the pine-tree. It is because he cannot get free[37] that he needs your prayers.