華嚴經傳記 4.27

4.27

In the middle ten days of the first month of the twelfth year of Bun'ei (yihai), while temporarily staying at Mount Toganoo's Kōzan-ji to attend thirty lectures on the Wujiao zhang, I borrowed the five-fascicle Transmission of the Avataṃsaka from the hand of Benqing of the E'nichibō, an inhabitant of that monastery. While adding reading marks to the text, in the excess of my heartfelt joy, after returning south to Nanto, I commissioned those skilled in calligraphy to copy it out. Within this transmission, as for the present fascicle: the front text was commissioned to be copied by Chōkei of the Shimotsuke clan of this monastery; the kana and surnames were commissioned to be added by his fellow resident, the Grandee Keijitsu. As for the text on the reverse (uragaki): I myself personally finished copying it on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month of the same year (at the hour of the rooster) at the New Academic Cloister of Sonshō-in in Tōdai-ji. Reaching decrepit old age, though my eyes are swollen and my hands tremble, I still exerted the diligence of gathering fireflies and earnestly recorded this path of flying birds. These kana, surnames, and the text on the reverse were recorded by the Tsuchimikado Major Counselor who became a lay monk (Lord Akitada). I have now copied them using the very text marked in that Zen practitioner's own hand; it may serve as an peerless witness text.