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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 130 The One-eyed Turtle and the Floating Log
Description: This letter was written at Minobu to the wife of the late lay priest Matsuno RokurÅ Saemon who lived at Matsuno in Ihara District of Suruga Province. Their daughter had married NanjÅ HyÅe ShichirÅ, and gave birth to nine children, among them NanjÅ Tokimitsu. The lay priest and his wife are thought to have been converted to the Daishoninâs Buddhism through their relationship with the NanjÅ family. Matsuno RokurÅ Saemon died in 1278, the year before this letter was written.At that time, disasters were frequent, and in particular, the famine that persisted through the au...