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As Hanada Shihan told the story I took notes as fast as I could. Finally, he paused and said, “Jones Sensei, as an educated man you should know that this is...,” he searched for an English word, “...wild history.” Using one of my most often-used Japanese expressions I said to him, “I don’t understand, Sensei.”

Hanada Shihan explained that perhaps because temple records were so routinely lost to fire over the centuries and subsequently rewritten, their historical value, as Westerners understand history, is confused. The stories are not intended as literal history in the Western sense of scientific history, but as an emotional or spiritual context, a rich and satisfying explanation of serious and auspicious origins. Did Fuke say what Hanada Shihan suggested? Who knows? Hanada Shihan doesn’t. That is not the point anyway. It is the spirit of the story that is important. The story says that the Komuso sect was derived from a unique, fearless and humorous man whom the great Rinzai characterized as an enlightened being.