A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu

One evening, while he was reciting the Sûtra, drowsiness overcame him, and he fell asleep leaning upon his kyōsoku.A kyōsoku is a type of padded arm-rest or arm-stool upon which a priest leans one arm while reading; this use is not restricted to the Buddhist clergy. Then he dreamed; and in his dream, a voice told him that, in order to see Fugen-Bosatsu, he must go to the house of a certain courtesan known as the "Yujō-no-Chōja,"In old times, a yujō was a singing-girl as well as a courtesan. The term "Yujō-no-Chōja" here simply means "the first (or best) of singing-girls." who lived in the town of Kanzaki. Immediately upon awakening, he resolved to go to Kanzaki; and, making all possible haste, he reached the town by the evening of the next day.

When he entered the house of the yujō, he found many people already assembled there—mostly young men from the capital, who had been drawn to Kanzaki by the fame of the woman’s beauty. They were feasting and drinking; and the yujō was playing a small hand-drum (tsu-zumi), which she used very skillfully, and singing a song.