sachhi

Updated: May 10, 2025

Therefore thy servant, Myong, in all sincerity, sends his retainer, Nori Sachhi, to transmit it to the Imperial country, that it may be diffused abroad throughout the home provinces,* so as to fulfil the recorded saying of the Buddha, 'My law shall spread to the East." It is highly probable that in the effort to win the Yamato Court to Buddhism, King Myong was influenced as much by political as by moral motives.

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