Insights into the Anecdotes: Shobei Masuno (1849–1914), Anecdote 145 “Always in a Comfortable Place to Live”

The Anecdote (Summary) When Shobei Masuno’s wife, Ito, visited her childhood friend Cho, daughter of Yazaemon Koyama of Sannomiya in Kobe in February 1884, Cho said to her, “Tenri-O-no-Mikoto is truly the all-powerful God of wonders.” Ito had been suffering for three years from an eye disease. Several famous doctors…

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Insights into the Anecdotes: Chuzaburo Koda (1828–1903), Anecdote 144 “The Virtue Which Reaches Heaven”

The Anecdote (Summary) Oyasama was detained in Nara Prison from March 24 through April 5, 1884. Chuzaburo Koda, arrested alongside Oyasama, was kept in custody for ten days. While imprisoned, Chuzaburo was ordered by a jailor to clean the toilets. When he came back to Oyasama after he had finished…

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Insights into the Anecdotes: Tamezo Yamazawa (1857–1936), Anecdote 90 “Deeper in the Second Generation than in the First”

The Anecdote (Summary)   When Tamezo Yamazawa began to serve Oyasama in about 1881, She instructed him in the following manner:   God says, “Showing innen [causality] to parents, God waits for children to appear.” Do you understand? Therefore, virtue is more deeply planted in the second generation than in…

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