What caused you to inwardly believe in the Lotus Sutra and make offerings to me
during my more than thirty-day stay there? I was hated and resented by the
steward and the people of the district even more than I was in Kamakura. Those
who saw me scowled, while those who merely heard my name were filled with spite.
And yet, though I was there in the fifth month when rice was scarce, you
secretly fed me. Have my parents been reborn in a place called Kawana, in Ito of
Izu Province?
(WND, 35)
The Izu Exile
Written to Funamori Yasaburo on June 27, 1261
during my more than thirty-day stay there? I was hated and resented by the
steward and the people of the district even more than I was in Kamakura. Those
who saw me scowled, while those who merely heard my name were filled with spite.
And yet, though I was there in the fifth month when rice was scarce, you
secretly fed me. Have my parents been reborn in a place called Kawana, in Ito of
Izu Province?
(WND, 35)
The Izu Exile
Written to Funamori Yasaburo on June 27, 1261