How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Shukke — leave the household.
Renunciates handed over their assets, cut contact with their families, took a religious name and moved into the communes at the foot of Mount Fuji. About 1,100 people did it. Japanese families had no legal instrument to reach an adult child inside, and the campaign to build one is what put the lawyer Sakamoto Tsutsumi in the group's way.
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