# Talk:Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest

Before anyone complains, I made sure to discuss this title on the refdesk before creating it.  The justification for it is found here. Viriditas (talk) 20:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I was able to find a digital copy of a first edition from 1920 online, and Robinson's order appears to be wrong, which intuitively seems obvious, as the book is supposed to document the chronological life of Nichiren.  This bothered me from day one, since the first time I saw Robinson's translation, so I can't figure out why he did this.  What's the point of translating a book completely out of order of the events depicted? Working on this... Viriditas (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I've now fixed the order per the 1920 edition and the historical chronology.  However, there seems to be some debate in the art auction literature as to the use and depiction of certain images meeting requirements for the first edition, and it may be that this is a second edition, not a first.  Either way, the order now appears to be correct. Viriditas (talk) 22:36, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
It looks like William Pearl copied Robinson's order and posted it on the Kuniyoshi Project website without bothering to check the 1920 edition of the book.  It's weird that some rando on Wikipedia has to fix the order of this book while nobody bothered to notice it was completely out of sequence. Viriditas (talk) 22:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
In the event that somebody asks how I know it is now in order, there are two reasons: 1) the order follows the 1920 print version of the entire work, and 2) the order follows the historical timeline of the documented (and obviously legendary in some respects) chronology per multiple sources. I will be adding these to the article in the next several days.  Why Robinson published his analysis out of order is confusing to me.  Either he didn't care or didn't bother to look at the history and publication order of the subject.  As for citing the 1920 version directly, I've been working on it.  I'm having difficulty translating it to complete a well-formed citation, but I'm making some progress.  I hope to have it cited inline soon. Viriditas (talk) 10:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Fixed.  Tanaka 1926.[1] Viriditas (talk) 02:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)