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              32. TERAO SHIGETSUNE'S MALEDICTION, 1277
                                     (A copy in Terao docs.; also KK, [.)
   "WHILE my indignation was rising against Yoichi and Shichiro, as they had con-
tinued to do wrong after my repudiation of them, they have [since] proved themselves
so evil as to declare, at the coming of the envoy Kishima no nyu-do, that they were
pardoned, though they were not, and to invade Hayasume's house and commit out-
rages; I should not be surprised it they, when my end approached nigh, should again
assert that they had been pardoned. If such an event occurred, there is no doubt that
for mu anger I should fall down to hell.1 In such an eventuality,2 complete report
should be made to the authorities, and [Yoichi] be exiled to Iwo-zhima3 or Ezo-xhima.4
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   "As [Yoichi] was so wicked as to give to another a half of the wet fields which had
been presented to the chapel at Zhitcho, this will is written in precaution.
   "Ken-chi 3 y. 10 m. 21 d. [17 November 1277].                             Monogram [of Jo-Butsu]."





   1 To die with so radical a sin upon one's heart as anger, specially against his own child, would be
certain to condemn him to ji-goku, the Buddhist hells. Anger, sloth, and covetousness, all rooted in
one's dark desire to serve his Self, were regarded by Buddha as fundamental evils.
   2 That is, if Yoichi made the false claim.
   3 "Sulphur Island," of volcanic origin, south of Kyu-shu.
   4 The present island of Hokkaido, in the cold north.