Shunki: the burning of Hase-dera in the first year of the Final Dharma

Eishō 7, eighth month, twenty-eighth day. Today the Sōjō Shinpan came in and reported to his lordship: “Hase-dera has burned down. Word has just come from that temple.” [Shin]pan is the superintendent of that temple. That this has now happened is a great sorrow. In the fire of old, it is said, [the image] could not be carried out; only the head (it is an eleven-faced one) was carried out, and a body was made and joined to it. It is more than a hundred years since that fire. It is the foremost place of miraculous power. That this has happened in the first year of the Final Dharma is to be feared. Whether the Buddha [image] was carried out is not certain, it is said.