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This, too, happened long ago. In the service of Tada no Mitsunaka there was a fierce and wicked retainer who made it his business to take the lives of living creatures. He went out into the fields and into the mountains to hunt deer and catch birds, never performing the smallest good deed. One day, while hunting, he was galloping after a deer, an arrow fitted to his bow and the bow drawn, when he came upon a temple beside the road. As he rode past, he glanced inside and saw a statue of Jizō standing there. Holding his bow in his left hand, he took off his hat with his right and, with a passing feeling of reverence, galloped on. Not many years afterward, he fell ill, suffered grievously for days, and died. He journeyed to the land of the dead and was summoned before the court of Enma. There he saw many sinners being beaten, tormented, and punished according to the gravity of their sins. The sight was terrible indeed. As he recalled the sins he had committed throughout his life, tears fell from his eyes, and he knew not what to do. Just then a monk appeared and said, “I intend to save you. Return at once to your home and repent of your sins.” The man respectfully asked, “Who are you, that you should speak to me thus?” The monk answered, “I am Jizō Bodhisattva, whom you saw inside the temple when you rode past in pursuit of a deer. Though your sins are grave and many, you felt a little reverence for me, and because of that act I have come now to save you.” With these words still in his mind, the man returned to life. From that time onward, he gave up killing altogether and devoted himself to Jizō Bodhisattva.