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This, too, is a tale of long ago. When the retired Emperor Go-Suzaku lay gravely ill, he was fearful of what awaited him in the next life. Then the Midō Novice appeared to him in a dream and said, “The descendants of anyone who has made a sixteen-foot image of the Buddha will never fall into the evil realms. I have had many such images made. You need have no doubt that you will attain enlightenment.” Thereupon, the emperor consulted with Abbot Meikai and had a sixteen-foot image of the Buddha made. This image was reverently installed at Gobutsu-in on Mount Hiei.