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A passage in the Buddhist scripture says: “Suppose that a couple has seven children, one of whom falls ill. Though the parents love all their children equally, they worry most about the sick child.” (Nirvana Sutra). * The passage shows how deep the love of the parents toward their sick child. Our parents also had the sick children, and in the period during and after the World War II, when the food situation was very serious, raised all of their seven children, caring most for the sick ones. (*The English translation is from The Writings of Nichiren by Soka Gakkai, p.535.)
Our publishing house was founded in 2012 by the seven children raised by the parents, typical common people, together with their friends as the promoters. When their parents passed away, they published the memorial books, collections of compositions by the children, relatives and friends, entitled A Memoir of Nao Yamaguchi (2000) and Cheers for Our Tomoe (2007) respectively. They named the publishing house “Seven Pups (hungry children)” at that time. This time we have named it “Seven Grasses” by including the word “seven” so as to make what we had in mind at that time our eternal founding spirit.
