Although I do not know what kind of promise I made in ancient times, it has been three years since I saw this village, Shonai Osaka in the Ikutama Higashinari district of Sesshu, at the end of fall 1496, and built a vihara.
「そもそも當國摂州東成郡生玉に荘内大坂といふ在所は往古よりいかなる約束のありけるにや、さんぬる明応第五の秋下旬のころより、かりそめながらこの在所をみそめしより、すでにかたのごとく一宇の坊舎を建立せしめ、年はやすでに三年の星霜をへたりき。