(which is further east and nearer the beginning of the journey) as the scene of the crossing. Textual sources Earliest sources The story originally appeared in two collections of setsuwa or tales, Dainihonkoku hokekyō kenki () and Konjaku Monogatarishū (). The text in the former work is written down in kanbun (Chinese text), while the text in the Konjaku Monogatarishū entitled "How a Monk of the Dōjōji in the Province of Kii copied the Lotus Sutra and Brought Salvation to Serpents" is of virtually identical content, only expanded into Japanese. This old version tells the story of an unnamed young widow (or young unmarried house mistress) who desired the attention of an unnamed handsome monk travelling on a pilgrimage route to a Shugendō shrine in Kumano on the Kii Peninsula. The monk, in an attempt to avoid meeting her, chose a different route on the return journey, and the woman died in grief when she found out that he was deliberately avoiding her. After her death, a great serpent emerged from her bedchamber and it pursued the monk before killing him in a bell in the Dōjō-ji temple where he had hidden. The old version also ends with an epilogue: Years later the monk appeared in a dream of a senior priest at this temple (Dōjō-ji), begging him to copy a chapter of the Lotus Sutra to release him and the serpent from their suffering in their rebirths, which was duly done and they were both reborn in separate heavens. Names of Anchin and Kiyohime Another setsuwa version is found in Genkō Shakusho , and here, is named as the young monk. The name Kiyohime did not appear in early versions of the tale, but was probably later derived from the name of the father or father-in-law, Seiji, which can also be read as Kiyotsugu. The name Kiyohime did not appear until the 18th century, in the narrative of a joruri (ballad drama) titled Dojo-ji genzai uroko (道成寺現在蛇鱗, The Snake Scales of Dojoji, A Modern Version) that was first performed in 1742. Some later versions also used different names for Anchin and Kiyohime. Picture scroll versions A monogatari version of the story is told in an emaki (picture scroll) from the Muromachi period titled Dōjōji engi emaki ("Illustrated legend of Dōjōji", ). In this version, the woman in the tale was the daughter-in-law of the owner of a home in