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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 085 The Story of Åhashi no TarÅ
Description: Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter at Minobu in the intercalary third month of the second year of Kenji (1276) to NanjÅ Tokimitsu, who lived in Ueno Village, in Suruga Province. Tokimitsuâs father, NanjÅ HyÅe ShichirÅ, had died in 1265, when he was seven years old and his mother was pregnant with his younger brother ShichirÅ GorÅ. The death of his father and, later, of his elder brother forced Tokimitsu to assume the duties of steward of Ueno while still in his teens. He was about eighteen years old when he received this letter from the Daishonin.
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