Once upon a time,
there was a monk at Amida Temple named Houichi who played the Japanese lute very beautifully.
Houichi was blinded by an eye disease he got in his childhood.
Being trained to play the lute and tell a story under a lute master,
his skill to play improved dramatically.
The head monk favored such Houichi's skill and let him live in the temple.
Houichi's best performance was "A Tale of the Heike Clan."
The story was based on a historical event; a battle between the Genji and Heike clans.
When he started to play the lute and told the story, everyone shed tears.
One Summer night.
The head monk left the temple for a Buddhist memorial service.
Houichi was playing the lute alone.
Then somebody called his name.
"Houichi! Houichi!"
Blind Houichi asked, "who is calling me?"
"I am a servant of the highly ranked lord living near here."
"I came to bring you to our lord who is requesting your performance."
"I'll guide you to his house so come with me."
"Thank you. I'd be honered to."
Houichi followed him.
He heard the sound of rattling armor every time the servant stepped forward.
'He must be a samurai encased in fine armor,' Houichi imagined.
They arrived at the house after a while.
It seemed like a big house with a large garden.
Hearing the rustle of kimonos and clanking armor, there must have been a large audience.
"Houichi, please play the Tale of Heike," one servant asked him.
Houichi started to twang the lute and told the story.
He played from his heart.
The story came to its climax;
the last battle of Genji and Heike clan.
As Houichi told of the Heike clans tragic end, losing the battle and perishing from history forever,
the audience quietly started to sob.
After Houichi finished performing, a hushed silence reigned over the audience.
Then the servant said to Houichi.
"Well done. Your lute was absolutely stunning. Our lord was deeply pleased."
"I am very honored to hear that," replied Houichi
"So, our lord is asking if you would come every night to perform.
Houichi, please consider our lord's request.
I'll come to pick you up at the temple," the servant continued.
"Ask any reward you want. We'll prepare it.
But never tell anybody about us when you return to the temple. Do you understand?"
Night after night, Houichi went to the house with the servant to play his lute.
The head monk wondered and worried where Houichi went every night,
coming back at nearly dawn, so he asked.
Houichi kept his promise with the servant and didn't say a word to the head monk.
The head monk thought that Houichi
must have a reason why he would not tell even to the head monk.
Deciding to find out what was going on, he told a sexton to follow Houichi that night.
As the head monk expected,
Houichi left the temple on that night so the sexton followed him.
Despite Houichi's blindness,
he was walking fast and disappeared suddenly at the cemetery.
'Where did he go?'
The sexton looked around and saw such a frightening scene he almost screamed.
Houichi was sitting alone in the cemetery and playing the lute.
Many pale fireballs were flying around him.
'Houichi was possessed by ghosts,' the sexton shuddered.
'They are the ghosts of the Heike clan that perished in an ocean of agony!'
The sexton went back to the temple and told the head monk what he saw.
The head monk immediately called Houichi and said,
"Houichi, the ghosts were attracted to your artistic lute.
If you keep visiting them, they will eventually take your life."
"Now, I have to go out tonight
so I'll write a Buddhist sutra on your body so the ghosts can't possess you.
Never reply to their call.
If you say anything, the sutra will lose its power.
Meditate in stillness and never utter a word, understand?"
"Yes, master,"
Houichi declared that he understood the head monk's order.
Houichi was sitting alone with the sutra written on his body.
The servant came and called his name.
"Houichi! Hoichi!"
Hoichi was invisible to him because of the sutra on his body.
"Where are you?"
The servant looked for Houichi and found his ears.
The head monk forgot to write sutra on Houichi ears!
"You! Houichi, I'm taking your ears as evidence that I came here to get you."
Then he ripped Houichi ears off and left with them.
During this time, sitting there,
Hoichi swallowed his pain and fear and never said a word.
After a while, the head monk came home and hurried to Houichi.
"Houichi! Are you alright?"
Houichi just sat still.
His ears were gone and blood was running from his head.
"Oh Houichi! I am so sorry to forget about your ears."
The head monk immediately knew what had happened.
The ghosts never came back to Houichi.
After some time, his wounds recovered.
People talked about his story with the ghosts and his performance.
Houichi's lute was more beautiful than ever and he became a very famous musician.
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