the
Jo[u]fukuji, at So[u]jiyama. Putting him in charge of
Sho[u]jitsu Sho[u]nin his head was shaved. At eight years
old he was received at the Mikkyo[u] (Shingon) Ho[u]don-In
Yuzon. Taishu[u] (secret cult) was learned through the
teaching of Shingen Ho[u]shi. The Zenshu[u] was taught by
the aged Tajima no Temmei and Gwatsuryu[u]. Shinto[u] by
Jibu no Tayu Morosuke. In the poetry of Nippon he followed
Tona, for ancient and modern example. He wrote ten books of
importance. Noted for learning, in Eiwa 4th year (1378) he
was transferred to Taitei-san O[u]sho[u]-in Nan-ryu[u]bo[u]
in Shimotsuke no Kuni. Here he taught the seed of the Law.
The son of Chiba Sadatane, Toku Sendai Maru, had a younger
brother. It was he who founded the Zo[u]jo[u]ji and became
Yu[u]yo[u] Sho[u]nin. Ryo[u]yo[u] Mikatsuki Sho[u]nin died
in O[u]ei 27th year 9th month 27th day (3rd November 1420).
The San-en-zan Kwo[u]-do[u]-in Zo[u]jo[u]ji had to fief
10540 _koku_. It is the chief seat of the Jo[u]do[u] sect in
the Kwanto[u], and its schools swarm with students.'

The large hanging bell of this Zo[u]jo[u]ji (_tsurigane_) has the
thickness of a foot. At the time it was the largest of all bells. In the
temple record it says that the Sho[u]nin of Shiba San-en-zan, generation
following generation, were highly noted for learning. From Ryo[u]yo[u]
Sho[u]nin the predecessor the principles must have been inherited. Hence
in the foolish talk of people the honoured name of the Sho[u]nin was
borrowed and adopted into the affair of Kikujo[u], as of the noted and
erudite priest Mikatsuki Sho[u]nin; no matter of offence."

But no such laboured explanation is required. The sanctity of learning,
the inheritance in these bishops and priors of the merits of those who
went before, has kept and keeps the appellation in the minds of the
generations of the Nipponese. Ryo[u]yo[u] Sho[u]nin, his merits and his
nickname, passed in the public mind to his successors. It is the
laboured and learned effort of these days which fastens on the prior of
Dendzu-in the tales of the long past founder of the temple. It was the
learned Osho[u] of the time of Tsunayoshi Ko[u], that fifth
Sho[u]gun--the Inu Kubo--basely devout and devoted to the Buddha's Law,
when to save the life of a dog (_inu_) the lives of men were sacrificed
on the execution ground.[36] The piety and learning of the great pries