建長五年四月二十八日、
On the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month in the fifth year of Kenchō (1253),
On the twenty-eighth day of the third month in the fifth year of Kenchō(1253),
安房の国東条の郷清澄寺道善の房、持仏堂の南面にして浄円房と申す者並びに少少の大衆にこれを申しはじめて
I pointed out the errors of the various schools for the first time to a priest called Jōen-bō and to some of the people on the southern side of the image hall in Dōzen-bō’s quarters at Seichō-ji temple in Tōjō Village of Awa Province.
I declared Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo in front of several priests, including Jōen-bō, while I faced toward the south in Dōzen-bō’s Jibutsudō hall, on the grounds of Seichōji Temple, located in Tōjō Country of Awa Province.
其の後二十余年が間・退転なく申す。
During the more than twenty years since then, I have spoken out with unremitting zeal.
Since then, for more than twenty years, I have been persistently propagating Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo.]
つづく continued
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