Life of a Court Lady Page #4

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As I am sure you know.

Oh, her daughter.

I do remember.

She was a beautiful person.

I do recall you had a strong liking for

her when you were young.

Now that you mention it,

she does look a lot like her.

Her father the chief councilor Masatada

had recently passed away,

so now I am like her father in many ways.

So, Shijo

this saintly man is a brother of mine,

though our mothers are different.

Sir Ajari, please keep Shijo

in mind from here on.

By the Lords whim I have to deliver this

letter to Sir Masano ltsukinomiya,

and at first I thought it would be a dreary errand,

but once I left, for no reason my feelings

brightened and I feel lifted.

Who is Sir ltsukinomiya?

Mei, you don't even know that?

She is an imperial princess who

served at lse Shrine.

Very pure hearted. I met her once when I was

very young, so I feel really nostalgic.

They're the Monks of the Dancing Nembutsu.

They've just arrived from the capital.

Monks of the Dancing Nembutsu?

It's their teaching, that regardless of

whether one has a strong belief,

as long as you keep chanting Lord Amida's

name you are guaranteed a passage to heaven.

So it's different from the teachings

of the monks on Mt. Ei?

I would not know much about that,

but the Tendai sect and the Shingen sect's

teachings are both for a respectable class

people such as you and our Lord.

The Dancing chanters sect teaches that even

beggars can also achieve passage to heaven.

You seem to know quite a bit, Mei.

What is the matter?

That monk looks unnaturally similar to Sir Ajari.

And maybe my eyes are mistaken,

but it seems his eyes are red.

"Though it is unknown the moment one sees a

visage, it flings the heart up"

I just returned from a long service at lse Shrine.

I know nothing of society.

How should I respond to such a song?

Furthermore, though our mothers are different,

I share the same father with my Lord.

The fi rst response ought

to be words that compliment.

But I was told the lord loves you

more dearly than anything else.

You have some wonderful scrolls.

Your Father had helped a lot with my

preparations when I was going to lse.

Though only vaguely I do remember

the time when you were born as well.

I was about five or six.

Your father got drunk and was happily dancing

after being spoken to by the lords.

It has been alreadythree years since

he has passed away.

Even at lse such news was hard to come by.

It must have been nice to play and catch sun

bathed crabs by the beautiful cove.

Such times were only sparse

But we did travel the sutra's by boat to the cove

of Futami, Toushino island, Gosenno island, and

Toru islands.

We picked the codium in Gosenno to give as

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