赤子の泣声 · Arida District, Wakayama · 1961
The crying from the weeping river
What the record says
A baby's crying used to be heard from the Naki-kawa, the weeping river. When a priest of the Shin sect recited the sutra it stopped, and the villagers, seeing the power of the Shin sutra, changed their sect.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
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