弘贊法華傳 5.21

5.21

弘贊法華傳者。宋人永蘇景。依予之勸。且自高麗國所奉渡聖教百餘卷內也。依一本書。為恐散失勸俊源法師。先乞書寫一本矣。就中蘇景等歸朝之間。於壹岐島。遇海賊亂起。此傳上五卷入海中少濕損。雖然海賊等或為宋人被殺害。或及島被溺死。敢見散失物。宋人等云。偏依聖教之威力也（云云）保安元年七月五日。於太宰府記之。大法師覺樹。

The Accounts in Praise of the Lotus Sūtra was brought over from the kingdom of Goryeo among more than a hundred scrolls of sacred teachings by Yong Sujing, a man of Song, pursuant to my encouragement. Based on a single exemplar, and fearing it might be lost or scattered, I urged Dharma Master Junyuan to first request the copying of one copy. In the course of this, while Sujing and others were returning to the court, at Iki Island they encountered an outbreak of turmoil caused by pirates; the first five rolls of this record fell into the sea and suffered slight water damage. Even so, while the pirates were either killed by the Song men or drowned upon reaching the island, the lost articles could still be recovered. The Song men said this was solely due to the mighty power of the sacred teachings. (And so forth.) Recorded at the Dazaifu on the fifth day of the seventh month in the first year of the Hōan era by the Great Dharma Master Jukuju.