Twenty scrolls of the Great Collection Sutra remained for me to copy, and I hoped to finish them within the hundred days following GoFukakusa’s death, but since I had no gowns except my nun’s habit, I could not even offer the clothes off my back as payment for my expenses. I barely had enough to live on, so what could I use? It was a rueful predicament. [5.25]

sad girl



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