Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn: “Before sundown the priest and his acolyte stripped Hoichi: then, with their writing-brushes, they traced upon his breast and back, head and face and neck, limbs and hands and feet,--even upon the soles of his feet, and upon all parts of his body,--the text of the holy sutra called Hannya-Shin-Kyo.”