[1] This story, though inspired by a Chinese tale, is Japanese in local colour, and serves to illustrate, in an extremely weird way, the power of Karma, or human desire, referred to in Chapter X. We have closely followed Lafcadio Hearn's rendering, to be found in In Ghostly Japan.
[2] See Chapter XVII.
[CHAPTER XIX: KŌBŌ DAISHI, NICHIREN, AND SHŌDŌ SHONIN]
"When he died it was as though a bright light had gone out in the midst of a black night."
"Namudaishi." (Trans. by Arthur Lloyd.)