Blogging Anecdotes of Oyasama: Contents

An original series authored by yours truly just for this website between January 2009 and July 2011. If you are new to the series, please read the Intro and Coda before diving into it. Also, please feel free to jump around and not confine yourself reading it in chronological order.

• Intro
• 1. “Balls and Weights”
• 2. “At Every Revelation Uttered”
• 3. The Storehouse (part one) (part two)
• 4. I Will Return Ten Thousandfold
• 5. The Same as Flowing Water
• 6. Seeing His Heart
• 7. Offering with a Sincere Heart
• 8. By a Slight Illness
• 9. According to the Parents’ Minds
• 10. The Long Way Around
• 11. God Has Drawn You to This Residence
• 12. The Sazuke (Divine Grant) of Fertilizer
• 13. Sow the Seed
• 14. Dyeing
• 15. These Seeds
• 16. The Child’s Concern for the Parent
• 17. The Law of Nature
• 18. The Songs of Truth
• 19. Children Playing Shuttlecock
• 20. Birth of a Girl
• 21. That’s All to the Good, That’s All to the Good
• 22. Writing the Ofudesaki
• 23. Saving from Tachiyamai Disease
• 24. I Am Glad You Have Come Home
• 25. Seventy-Five Days of Fasting
• 26. The Story of Linen, Silk and Cotton
• 27. Happy Day
• 28. Clear the Path from the Bottom
• 29. Three Treasures
• 30. Ten Thousandfold
• 31. The Measure of Heaven
• 32. It Depends on the Wife’s Word
• 33. The Bridge Between Countries
• 34. Tsukihi Has Granted It
• 35. The Red Garments
• 36. Firm Resolution
• 37. You Are Faithful in Your Work
• 38. From the Hills in the East
• 39. Much Better
• 40. Stay Here
• 41. To Eternity
• 42. By Saving Others
• 43. That Will Do
• 44. A Snowy Day
• 45. Wrinkles of the Mind
• 46. Everything from This to That
• 47. Be Joyful of the Future
• 48. Waiting, Waiting
• 49. Obedient Mind
• 50. Kosuke and Suma
• 51. Family Treasure
• 52. Learn the Koto
• 53. From This Residence
• 54. Play It with All Your Heart
• 55. Kokyu, Kokyu
• 56. Thank You for Your Trouble Last Night
• 57. A Boy Should Be Accompanied by His Father
• 58. Today from Kawachi
• 59. Festival
• 60. Sacred Sugar Candy
• 61. Beneath the Corridor
• 62. East from Here
• 63. Merit That Is Not to Be Seen
• 64. Smoothed out Gently
• 65. Drawn Here to Be Used
• 66. Safe Childbirth
• 67. Poor Fellow
• 68. The Way Ahead Is Long
• 69. Prefer the Younger Brother
• 70. Threshing Wheat
• 71. In Such a Heavy Rain
• 72. Destined to Be Saved
• 73. Holy Fire for Invocation
• 74. Following God’s Path
• 75. This Is Tenri (The Reason of Heaven)
• 76. Peonies in Full Bloom
• 77. Chestnut Festival
• 78. A Rich Man’s Residence
• 79. Children Who Return
• 80. The Two of You Together
• 81. Now, Help Yourself
• 82. Yoisho!
• 83. Many, Many Years
• 84. In the Southern Half of the Province
• 85. Too Heavy a Load for a Child
• 86. Great Salvation
• 87. Because People Like You
• 88. From a Dangerous Place
• 89. Leftover Sweet Sake
• 90. Deeper in the Second Generation than in the First
• 91. Dance All the Way Home
• 92. Husband and Wife Together
• 93. Eight Cho Square
• 94. Tea Is Ready
• 95. The Path of Eight Hundred Kilometers
• 96. Those Who have an Innen
• 97. Tobacco Field
• 98. For Eternity
• 99. Wedding in Osaka
• 100. You Are to Save Others
• 101. Do Not Stop on the Way
• 102. I Myself Will Call on Her
• 103. Without Erring
• 104. Faith in God
• 105. This Is a Place to Be Joyful
• 106. Symbolic Serving
• 107. Eczema Is a Troublesome Condition
• 108. The Roads to the Summit Are Many
• 109. Yoshi, Yoshi
• 110. Souls Are Everliving
• 111. Being Awakened in the Morning
• 112. Amiability First of All
• 113. Lullabies
• 114. You Went Through Much Difficulty
• 115. Devote Yourself Single-Heartedly to Saving Others
• 116. Come Alone
• 117. With His Father and Mother
• 118. On the Side of God
• 119. Children Returning from Afar
• 120. One in One Thousand
• 121. New Kimono for Your Daughter
• 122. As Long as There Is Virtue
• 123. Is Man the Object?
• 124. A Drawstring Made of Wood Shavings
• 125. Cannot See Ahead
• 126. As the Symbol of Worship for the Confraternity
• 127. Tokyo, Tokyo and Nagasaki
• 128. Oyasama’s Room
• 129. Healing of the Skin Disease
• 130. Fine Dust
• 131. On the Side of God
• 132. To Be Eaten Deliciously
• 133. Consider the Future Long
• 134. Recollections
• 135. With Round Minds
• 136. Now, Go Forth with This
• 137. A Single Word
• 138. You Must Treasure Things
• 139. With Flag Flying
• 140. Thank You Very Much
• 141. Buds Burst Forth from a Knot
• 142. Narrowness Holds the Promise of Joy
• 143. Children Are Dear
• 144. The Virtue Which Reaches Heaven
• 145. Always in a Comfortable Place to Live
• 146. Thank You for Your Work
• 147. True Salvation
• 148. To the Clear Place
• 149. When It Strikes Six This Morning
• 150. Persimmons
• 151. Grant for Safe Childbirth
• 152. Twice as Strong
• 153. The Day of Release
• 154. God Brings Them to the Residence
• 155. If You Are Saved
• 156. The End of a Relationship
• 157. These Are Good Hands
• 158. Monthly Period Is the Flower
• 159. The Residence: The Place for Single-Hearted Devotion to God
• 160. Selecting a Persimmon
• 161. To See Children’s Enjoyment
• 162. In Her Children’s Stead
• 163. Brothers Among Brothers
• 164. Deep Affection
• 165. Buy Dearly
• 166. A Mark on the Body
• 167. Through Saving Others
• 168. A Boat Ride
• 169. This Suits Me Very Well, Doesn’t It?
• 170. Heaven Is the Foundation
• 171. The Mountain of Treasure
• 172. Repentance for a Previous Life
• 173. All Days are Lucky Days
• 174. If You Let Go Your Strength
• 175. Seventeen Children
• 176. Person with a Pure Heart
• 177. At Least One Person
• 178. Our Body Is of Prime Importance
• 179. God Is Laughing
• 180. A Reluctant Offering of Rice Cakes
• 181. Oyasama’s Rice Bowl
• 182. The Residence of Origin
• 183. A Stormy Wind
• 184. A Way of Perceiving
• 185. You Do Not Know Where I Work
• 186. Such a Fine Present
• 187. Solely to Jiba
• 188. Permanent Staff of the Residence
• 189. The Hearts of Husband and Wife
• 190. This Path
• 191. Welcome Home
• 192. A Kite Cries “Toh, Toh”
• 193. By Himself Soon
• 194. Her Favorite Dishes
• 195. Thank You for Your Trouble
• 196. Maturing of the Child
• 197. Hands that Work
• 198. With Any Flower
• 199. Just One
• 200. Cherish It
• Coda