about 250 years ago a rich wine-seller lived in tokyo, that day was a party and his family went for the temple, also the people wore clothes colours and bright. the wine-seller´s daughter saw a samurai in the crowd and inmediatly she fell in love of him. but later she found. None of the other people in her party saw him.
So she ordered a bright purple robe with long arms and she wore all time. When she was at home then she sat in fron of window and she prayed to the buddhas.
then she ill and died the purple robe went to te temple where the priest and he sell a other girl and repeat the story until the priest discover that the purple robe had bad spirits. So that the purple robe was burned while burning appear the words namu myo renge kyo. One by one, the burning characters jumped out of the fire and into the temple roof.
the terrible day is still remembered in tokyo. they call it the day of the great fire of the purple robe.
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