"Shito" was an asceticism to smash his left little finger, wrapped the finger with a piece of oiled clothe, tied the finger to the lattice of the temple, and then put his finger on fire while he was handling incense sticks in his right hand, reading twenty one volumes of the Hannya-shingyo Sutra (Heart Sutra).
それは、左手の指を砕いて油布で覆い、それを堂の格子に結びつけて火をつけ、右手には線香を持って般若心経21巻を読誦するという荒行であった。