hokke-kyo-sutra

Updated: May 14, 2025

Go-Daigo's will declared that his only regret in leaving the world was his failure to effect the restoration, and that though his body was buried at Yoshino, his spirit would always yearn for Kyoto. Tradition says that he expired holding a sword in his right hand, the Hokke-kyo-sutra in his left, and that Kitabatake Chikafusa spoke of the event as a dream within a dream.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era