Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn: “In the Japanese tongue, Ho-ke-kyo; in Sanscrit, Saddharma Pundarika: 'The Sutra of the Lotus of the Good Law,' the divine book of the Nichiren sect.”
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn: “and the chant is the chant of the Chapter of Kwannon in the Hokkekyo, with its magnificent invocation: 'O Thou whose eyes are clear, whose eyes are kind, whose eyes are full of pity and of sweetness--”
In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn: “Such a device is justified especially by the famous parable of the third chapter of the Saddharma Pundarika.”
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn: “In the neighboring bamboo-grove I hear the flute-call of the bird that praises the Sutra of the Lotos; and the land is very still by reason of the south wind.”
Shadowings by Lafcadio Hearn: “For many years he meditated daily upon the chapter of Fugen-Bosatsu [the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra] in the Sutra of the Lotos of the Good Law; and he used to pray, every morning and evening, that he might at some time be permitted to behold Fugen-Bosatsu as a living presence, and in the form described in the holy text.”
The Japanese Spirit by Yoshisaburo Okakura: “The sonorous reading of the Book of Filial Piety was heard all over the country, echoing with the loud recital of the Myoho-renge-kyo (or Saddharma Pundarika Sutra).”
The No Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley: “(1) The Amidists sought to gain satori by the study of the Hokke Kyo, called in Sanskrit Saddharma Pundarika Sutra or "Scripture of the Lotus of the True Law," or even by the mere repetition of its complete title "Myoho Renge Hokke Kyo."”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya: “On one occasion, for instance, Fah Tah (Ho-tatsu), a monk who had read over the Saddharma-pundarika-sutra three thousand times, visited him to be instructed in Zen. "Even if you read the sutra ten thousand times," said the Sixth Patriarch, who could never read the text, "it will do you no good, if you cannot grasp the spirit of the…”
Dogra Magra by Yumeno Kyūsaku: “As for the monk's name, Shōkū, it sounds Tendai, so he probably read something like the Lotus Sutra and grasped this principle from it. [auto-translated]”
The Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu: “Behind the curtained dais came two scrolls apparently copied in a woman's hand: the Lotus Sutra of Lady Tachibana, her great-grandmother, and the Treatise on Yue Yi of the present Empress Dowager. [auto-translated]”
Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn: “In the eleventh chapter of the Sutra of the Lotus of the Good Law, it is written that mention was made before the Lord Buddha of a young girl who had in one instant arrived at supreme knowledge”
Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James: “One bird chanted the grand Scripture of the Nicheten, the Praise of the Sutra of the Lotus, of the Good Law, and the other bird called upon his Master's name, for he cried: "O thou Compassionate Mind! O thou Compassionate Mind!"”