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'Takuhizan' signifies The Fire-burning Mountain a name due perhaps either to the legend of its ghostly fires, or to some ancient memory of its volcanic period. 'Mongakuzan' means The Mountain of Mongaku Mongaku Shonin, the great monk. It is said that Mongaku Shonin fled to Oki, and that he dwelt alone upon the top of that mountain many years, doing penance for his deadly sin.
These commissioners numbered thirty-six, and each had his own sphere of duties: as the shonin bugyo, who controlled judicial affairs; the tosen bugyo, who dealt with affairs of foreign trade; the jisha bugyo, who superintended temples and shrines; the onsho bugyo, who had to do with official rewards, etc.
An' then won't they yell!" he added, slapping his thigh in great glee. Smith went on. "I'll jest go up the path. Old Rover'll come down the road to meet me. He won't bark; he'll know me, an' he'll come down waggin' his tail an' shonin' his teeth. That's his way of laughin'. An' so I'll walk up to the kitchen door, an' I'll say 'Dinner f'r a hungry man! An' then she'll jump up, an'-"
For this distress neither the Tendai doctrines nor the Shingon conceptions were sufficiently simple to supply a remedy. Something more tangible and less recondite was needed, and it came , in the sequel of twenty-five years' meditation and study, to Genku posthumously called Honen Shonin a priest of the Tendai sect. "Salvation is by faith, but it is a faith ritually expressed.
Upon the Sutra of Suraigama-Samadhi, I, Shinran Shonin, have uttered these eight lauds praising the virtue of Seishi the Bodhisattva of Wisdom.
Whether he really ever visited Oki, I am not able to say; there are traditions which declare the contrary. But the peaklet has borne his name for hundreds of years. Now this is the story of Mongaku Shonin: Many centuries ago, in the city of Kyoto, there was a captain of the garrison whose name was Endo Morito.
At this time there was a famous priest, called Mikadzuki Shônin, of the temple Denzuin, who, having been told of the affair, came one night to the house, and, when the ghost began to count the plates, reproved the spirit, and by his prayers and admonitions caused it to cease from troubling the living.
Having taken birth in that small and remote island, Honen Shonin spread abroad the doctrine of the Holy Name for the sake of all men's salvation. And thus had he done not only then, but many times in ages gone by. That Buddha, whose light is infinite, was made flesh in this world as Honen Shonin, and when his merciful work was accomplished, he returned into the Land of Purity.
And he said to the strangers: 'Tell me, I pray you, by what names you are known. Then the old man answered: 'I am Kasuga Myojin. And the woman answered: 'I am called Ten-sho-ko-dai- jin; I am the Goddess of the Sun. And as they spoke both became transfigured and ascended to heaven and vanished from the sight of Tokudo Shonin.
And now, his time being at hand, Honen Shonin spake: "Thrice have I taken birth in the Land of Purity, and of these three times the last hath given unto me the fullness of peace." Once did Honen Shonin speak, saying: "In the glorious day of our Lord was I among the holy Assemblage on the Peak of Vultures, and my Spirit was rapt in self-instruction and in the doctrine of salvation."
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