"親德拾は歳皇史を拝読し、此の神法の今時に廃絶したるを慨歎し、岩窟に求め草庵に尋ね、終に三拾五歳にして神懸三十六法あることを覚悟り、夫れより幽冥に正し現事に徴し、古事記日本紀の真奥を知り、古先達の説々悉く皆謬解たるを知り弁へたりき。"
— Honda Chikaatsu

January 1, 1970

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Commentaries to the Kojiki and the ancient histories have all been erroneous because Motoori, Hirata and all such other renowned masters have not comprehended this matter of spirit possession. [I,] Chikaatsu at the age of eighteen worshipfully read the Imperial histories, and came to lament that this divine method had ceased to be carried out. I thus went seeking for it in stone grottoes and grass huts, and at the age of 35 came to understand that there are 36 methods of spirit possession. Since