(Invocation.)
_Hail to the Sutra of the Lotos of the Good Law!_
(Commemorative text.)
The rite of feeding the hungry spirits having been fulfilled,
and the service for the dead having been performed, this sotoba is
set up in commemoration of the service and the offerings made with
prayer for the salvation of Buddha on behalf of--(_kaimyō_ follows).
(Prayer--with English translation.)
_Gan i shi kudoku
Fu-gyū o issai
Gatō yo shujō
Kai-gu jō butsudo._
By virtue of this good action I beseech that the merit of it may
be extended to all, and that we and all living beings may fulfil the
Way of Buddha.[20]
_The fifth day of the seventh month of the thirtieth year of Meiji, by
---- ----, this sotoba has been set up._