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和顔愛語 wagan aigo A Gentle Face, Loving Words

和顔愛語 (wagan aigo), a gentle expression and kind words, is a bodhisattva's practice in the Sutra of Immeasurable Life that books printed from the 1880s made a rule for the household, and that became a school precept and a phrase for the framed scroll.

Japanese Scroll of A Gentle Face, Loving Words (wagan aigo) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
A Gentle Face, Loving Words (wagan aigo)

和顔愛語 (wagan aigo): a gentle, smiling face and kind words. A hand-brushed hanging scroll by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase on traditional Japanese paper.

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Abstract

和顔愛語, wagan or wagen aigo, a gentle face and loving words, is the first half of a line in the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, the 無量寿経, where the bodhisattva Dharmākara, in the ages of practice before he became the Buddha Amida, meets beings 和顏愛語先意承問, with a gentle face and loving words, anticipating their wishes and receiving and inquiring after them. The standard modern edition of the Chinese canon prints 軟, soft, for 愛 because its base is the Korean canon, but its own apparatus gives 愛 for the Song, Yuan and Ming canons, two commentators of the sixth and seventh centuries read 愛, and Shinran and every Japanese edition of the sutra printed before the Taishō in the Diet Library's full text print it, so the line a Japanese reader knows is 和顏愛語. In books printed from the 1880s the phrase leaves the sermon for the household, for brothers, for a son toward his parents, for the mother and her child, the housewife, the girls' school, the post office and the school precept, and it is read two ways, wagen in the sutra's schools and wagan in Zen, in the new religion 生長の家 and in JMdict. Its commentators gave it a caution and a figure from the start: out of season a gentle face falls into flattery, and the practice is a mother's, who answers her infant before it can ask.

Overview

The sense. The phrase means a gentle face and kind, loving words in dealing with others. The Jōdo school's dictionary defines it as なごやかな笑顔とやさしい言葉, a mild, smiling face and gentle words, the everyday mindfulness of one who calls the Buddha's name, and places it in the passage after the four-verse vow of the 無量寿経 as the constant bearing of the bodhisattva Dharmākara 法蔵 [1]. The Hongwanji's dictionary of everyday Buddhist words opens with no sour faces, please, says the phrase has become familiar as a school precept and on framed calligraphy and hanging scrolls, and gives the sutra's modern Japanese version: 表情はやわらかく、言葉はやさしく、相手のこころを汲み取ってよく受け入れ, gentle in expression, kind in word, drawing out the other's heart and taking it in [2]. The witnesses below hold the senses side by side: the bodhisattva's practice, which in Shinran's reading is done for beings who cannot do it themselves; the conduct the sutra's readers took from it for their own households; and a motto of character, school and workplace with no sutra behind it.

The words. 和顔 is a gentle, softened face; the word is classical Chinese outside Buddhism too, and a character dictionary quotes Cao Zhi 曹植's 洛神賦 for it, 和顏を收めて志を靜め, composing her gentle face and stilling her heart [3]. 愛語 is loving speech, the second of the bodhisattva's four ways of drawing beings in, the 四摂法, giving, loving speech, beneficial conduct and sharing their lot, 布施、愛語、利行、同事 [4][5]. The sutra's line goes on 先意承問, read 意に先だって承問す, anticipating their wishes, he received and inquired after them [1]: the bodhisattva answers what another means before it is said. The phrase has two readings. 顔 read gen is the older 呉音 used in Buddhist recitation, and gan the 漢音: the Pure Land and Shin editions of the sutra, their sermons and both schools' dictionaries read わげんあいご [1][2], as do the Buddhist dictionaries of 1909, 1916 and 1934 [6][7][8]; Zen teachers read わがんあいご, Shaku Sōen in the ruby of his printed talks and Arai Sekizen in the Diet Library's full text, and so does JMdict [9][10][11]. Both readings are old, and neither is a mistake; which one a speaker uses says which tradition the phrase reached them through. The canon writes the face 顏, and the prints the history cites write one form or the other; the modern form is 顔, and the two are one character.

The text in English. The earliest English rendering of the passage in the Internet Archive's full text is from the Sanskrit, not the Chinese: Max Müller in 1894 gives Dharmākara as tender, kindly speaking, with no word for the face [12]. The four characters reach English as a Japanese phrase in the second half of the twentieth century, romanized wagen aigo in Buddhist writing and wagan aigo in Zen and popular use, glossed affectionate words, harmonious face, kindly/affectionate words, and once gentle face and impressive words [13][14][15][16]. The translations of the sutra and of Shinran give the passage whole: with expressions of tenderness on his face and with kindness in his speech (Inagaki and Stewart, 1995) and gentle in countenance and loving in speech (Hirota and others, 1997) [17][18]. JMdict gives with a gentle face and a nice word [11].

The historical record

Traditionally 252. The 無量寿経, the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, translated into Chinese by Kang Sengkai 康僧鎧. The bodhisattva Dharmākara has made his vows and spent unthinkable ages in practice; the sutra describes him [19]:

不生欲覺、瞋覺、害覺，不起欲想、瞋想、害想 … 少欲知足，無染恚癡，三昧常寂，智慧無礙。無有虛偽諂曲之心，和顏軟語先意承問，勇猛精進志願無惓，專求清白之法。

He gave rise to no thought of desire, of anger or of harm … Content with little, free of greed, anger and folly, his samādhi ever tranquil and his wisdom unobstructed, he had no mind of falsehood or flattery; with a gentle face and soft words he anticipated their wishes and received and inquired after them; he strove with courage, untiring in his resolve, seeking only the pure Dharma. That is the line as the Taishō canon prints it, from its base text, the Korean canon; at 軟 its apparatus reads 愛 for the Song, Yuan and Ming canons and for the popular edition it collated [19]. The Taishō does not say which edition it means by the popular one. In the Diet Library's full text no Japanese edition of the sutra printed before the Taishō reads 軟, and the Jōdo school's dictionary names 和顔軟語 as the reading of another text [1]. The other three surviving Chinese translations of the sutra do not carry the phrase [19].

418–420. The 華厳経, the Flower Garland Sutra, in sixty fascicles, translated by Buddhabhadra 佛馱跋陀羅. The four characters stand here too, without 先意承問, in other practices. In the chapter on the ten practices, the third, 無恚恨行, the practice without anger: 此菩薩常能修習忍辱之法，謙卑恭敬，和顏愛語, this bodhisattva ever cultivates patience, humble and reverent, with a gentle face and loving words [20]. In a later chapter, among the bodhisattva's means of wisdom: 和顏愛語，先意問訊, a gentle face and loving words, greeting others first [21]. That is the one place in the 華厳経 where a 先意 clause follows, and it is 問訊, to greet, not 承問.

Sixth and seventh centuries. The commentators on the 無量寿経, Huiyuan 慧遠 (523–592) in Sui China and Gyeongheung 憬興 in Silla. Both explain the line from a text that read 愛, and both divide it the same way. Huiyuan [22]:

無有虛偽諂曲之心，明離心過。言和顏者，明離身過。愛語先問，明離口過。

Having no mind of falsehood or flattery shows freedom from the faults of the mind. A gentle face shows freedom from the faults of the body. Loving words and asking first show freedom from the faults of the mouth. Gyeongheung, in Silla in the late seventh century, writes 愛語先問者，即離口過, loving words and asking first: that is, freedom from the faults of the mouth [23]. So 愛 is the reading of the sutra's commentators centuries before the printed canons, and the Korean canon's 軟 is the outlier, not an older twin.

Thirteenth century. Shinran 親鸞, the 教行信証, the chapter on shinjin. Shinran quotes the whole passage under 大經言, the larger sutra says, with 和顏愛語先意承問 [24], and quotes it again in his 浄土文類聚鈔 [25]. He quotes it as evidence that the sincere mind, the 至心, belongs to the Buddha and not to us: all beings, he writes, have no true and real mind, and so the Tathāgata in pity practiced with body, speech and mind for them, with not a moment that was not pure and true [24]. In this reading the gentle face and loving words are Dharmākara's, practiced on behalf of beings who cannot practice them. A print of 1673 gives the passage with 愛 at the leaf, 無有虚偽諂曲之心和顏愛語先意承問 [26].

1632. 百法問答抄, a catechism of the Hossō school, in a print of the Kan'ei era. Under the heading 十行, the ten practices: 無恚行 … 菩薩常修忍辱。和顔愛語不害自他。名無恚行, the practice without anger: the bodhisattva ever practices patience, with a gentle face and loving words, harming neither himself nor others; this is called the practice without anger [27]. The 華厳経's home of the phrase, in a Japanese book of the early Edo period.

1670. Asai Ryōi 浅井了意, 無量寿経鼓吹, a commentary on the sutra. Ryōi gives the phrase a section of its own, headed 和顔愛語之辨, on a gentle face and loving words [28]. A gentle face and loving words, he writes, come from a heart with no falsehood or flattery in it, and he adds the caution:

夫レ世ノ人或ハ和顔愛語ナル者若シ節ニ合ズ宜ニ違則ンハ追従輕薄ノ繕ニ落ツ漢ノ馬援カ所謂刻鵠不成尚類鶩者也畫虎不成反類狗者也ト云フカ如シ

Among people of the world, one who is of gentle face and loving words, if out of season and against what is fitting, falls into the trimmings of flattery and frivolity, as Ma Yuan 馬援 of the Han said: carve a swan and fail, and it still looks like a duck; paint a tiger and fail, and it looks like a dog. The face in the sutra, he goes on, is the face of the bodhisattva's great compassion, pitying beings without partiality, and loving words are the second of the four ways of drawing beings in. Then he explains 先意承問 with a figure [28]:

喩ハ母ノ嬰児ヲ育スルニ乳保撫養更ニ嬰児ノ云ハザルニ先テ辨ス能ク児ノ意ニ適シテ背カズ是レ母ノ悲恩更ニ虚僞ナク真實ニシテ愛憐スルカ故也

It is like a mother raising her infant: nursing and caring for it, she attends to it before the infant has said anything, and meets its wish and never goes against it. That is because the mother's pity has no falsehood in it and her love is true. The commentary was reprinted in type in 1901, with the phrase read わげんあいご in the ruby [29].

1880s–1900s. The household. The commentaries printed in the Meiji era gloss the phrase as softening the face and making the words gentle, 和顏愛語トハ顏セヲ和ケテ語ヲ柔カニスルコトナリ [30], and the sermons and moral books carry it into the family. Lectures by 法海 (1768–1834), printed in 1883, set it between brothers, 弟ハ兄ヲ敬ヒ兄ハ弟ヲ憐ミ和顏愛語ト, the younger respecting the elder, the elder pitying the younger, with a gentle face and loving words [31]; a book of Buddhist ethics of 1888 asks that a son serve his parents with sincerity and comfort them 和顏愛語以テ, with a gentle face and loving words, and that one meet an enemy with the same, to dissolve his grudge [32]; a commentary on the sutra of filial piety by 僧純 (1791–1872), printed in 1892, sets the sutra's phrase between the Analects' in the practice of the rites, harmony is to be valued and the first article of Prince Shōtoku's constitution [33]; a history of the Nichiren school of 1899 says the founder, severe almost to madness in denouncing the other schools, was to his followers 和顏愛語、靄然として、殆んと母の子に於けるが如き, gentle of face and loving of word, warm, almost as a mother to her child [34]; a household magazine of 1903, in the Diet Library's full text, describes a household run amid gentle faces and loving words [35]. The books of 1883 and 1892 give the phrase the reading wagen aigo in their ruby, ワゲンアイゴ and わげんあいご [31][33].

1908. Nanjō Bun'yū 南条文雄, lectures on the 無量寿経. Nanjō reads 先意承問 through the 禮記, as the 1888 commentary had pointed to it (先意承問トハ禮記ノ中ニ之ト同シ語アリ, for 先意承問, the Book of Rites has the same words [30]), and through the mother. He writes: 先意承問トハ禮記ノ祭儀篇ニ君子所謂孝者先意承志諭父母於道トアリ, for 先意承問, the 祭義 chapter of the Book of Rites has: what the superior man calls filial piety is to anticipate his parents' wishes, carry out their aims, and instruct them in the way, and then: 和顏愛語ハ親ノ子ニ對スル慈悲ノ眞相ナリ, a gentle face and loving words are the true form of a parent's compassion for a child [36]. The 禮記's line, as Wikisource transcribes it, is Zengzi 曾子's: 君子之所為孝者：先意承志，諭父母於道 [37]. Nanjō turns it round, so that what a filial son does for his parents becomes what a parent does for a child. In a later book, after reading the sutra's line in Japanese, he puts the figure plainly, 慈母の愛子に於けるも全く此語の如し, a loving mother with her beloved child is exactly as these words say, and sets the 大學 beside it, quoting the passage to its end: 先意承問の一句は、大學の「赤子を保んずるが如し、心誠に之を求めば、中らずと雖も遠からず、… 」, the clause 先意承問 is the Great Learning's "as if watching over an infant: if the heart truly seeks it, though she does not hit the mark she will not be far off," …, and the quotation closes on the girl who never learned to raise a child before she married [38]. The received text of the 大學, as Wikisource transcribes it: 心誠求之，雖不中不遠矣。未有學養子而後嫁者也 [39].

1910. Shaku Sōen 釈宗演, 勇猛精進, a Rinzai master's lectures. Sōen quotes the sutra's line in his own talk, with the ruby わがんあいご せんゐしようもん, as a rule of daily conduct: 其次は和顏愛語先意承問だが、今朝も遲く起ると…, next comes a gentle face and loving words, anticipating others' wishes and receiving and inquiring after them; but if, this morning too, one gets up late … [40]. A Zen teacher's reading of the sutra's phrase.

1915. A talk at the post office. A collection of moral talks issued by the Ministry of Communications in 1915 prints a talk by 豊岡博道 under the title 和顏愛語, given, by the note at its end, at the Koishikawa post office in Tokyo, 小石川郵便局に於て講話: 和顏愛語とは、やわらいだ顔、やさしい言葉、と云ふ意味でつまり佛樣を形容した語であります, the phrase means a softened face and gentle words; it is, in short, a phrase describing the Buddha; 和顏愛語であれば喧嘩も起らぬのである, with a gentle face and loving words, no quarrel arises; and, he tells the staff, 諸君も和顏愛語は社交上……又郵便局の如き共同で事務を執る處では實に必要である, for you too a gentle face and loving words are, in society … and in a place like a post office, where people work together, truly needed [41].

1919–1920. Shaku Sōen, talks to women. Sōen's 和顔愛語 of 1919 is, by its chapter titles in the Diet Library's full text, a book of talks to women, which takes the phrase for its title and its opening chapter; its pages are not served outside Japan [42]. The same chapter, as far as the text of the two books can be compared, stands in a book of his talks of the following year, where he says that one who has made compassion and patience her own becomes, without seeking it, a person of gentle face and loving words, and that a gentle face is the outward result of a cultivated heart, so that 如何に生れついて醜い顏の女でも、之によつて他を感化する力のあるものぢや, however plain the face a woman was born with, by this she has the power to move others [43]. The chapter names the 中庸 and a sutra on the pure mind, and not the 無量寿経.

1932–1937. The household of 生長の家. Taniguchi Masaharu 谷口雅春's new religion, 生長の家, the House of Growth, made the phrase a household slogan. In the Diet Library's full text, where these books' pages are not served outside Japan, its scripture and a book of 1935 say that a gentle face, loving words and mutual gratitude make your home a House of Growth [44][45], and a book of 1937 for mothers, wives and daughters glosses the phrase, among the movement's teachings, as a mild face [46]; and in that full text their ruby reads wagan aigo.

1932. Yamabe Shūgaku 山辺習学, a dissent. A Shin scholar writes that the moral mottoes of Buddhism, 「和顏愛語」「表裏相應」といふ佛敎の道德的標語も、人々の心から妄心を除かぬ限りは、徹底的に云へば一切皆妄語の奬勵に過ぎない, even Buddhism's moral mottoes, "a gentle face and loving words" and "inside matching outside," so long as the deluded mind is not removed from people's hearts, are, taken to the end, nothing but an encouragement to lie [47].

1935–1937. The girls' school. A women's normal school's book of its precepts writes: 大無量壽經に「和顏愛語」といふ語があるが我等は不斷にこの語に含まれてゐる態度を以て人に接すべき, the larger sutra has the phrase "a gentle face and loving words," and we should always meet others in the attitude it holds [48]. A girls' high school's book of 1937 quotes a writer on the home: 殊に主婦は、家庭の中心でありますから、常に愉快な顏色と溫かい言葉を以て、家庭の調和者とならなければなりませぬ。經に「和顏愛語」といふ語がありますが, above all the housewife, as the center of the home, must with a cheerful face and warm words always be the one who keeps the home in harmony; the sutra has the phrase "a gentle face and loving words" [49].

After 1949. The motto. The phrase titles a children's book of the Higashi Honganji in 1949, 和顔愛語 : 子供の物語 : ニコニコ顔とよい言葉, a gentle face and loving words: stories for children: a smiling face and good words [50], and a girls' high school's tenth-anniversary volume in 1974 [51]; it is a school precept and stands on framed and hanging calligraphy [2]. A calligraphy column in the probation service's journal in 2025 brushes the whole line, 和顔愛語先意承問, with the sutra's reading, わげんあいごせんいじょうもん [52].

What is not a source. 和顏軟語, a gentle face and soft words, stands in other sutras: in the 雜阿含經, among the seven vows by which Indra became Indra when he was a man, beside honoring father and mother and the elders of the house, and of a king toward his household in the 金光明最勝王經 [53]. It is a kin phrase and the Korean canon's reading of the 無量寿経, not the line Japanese readers know. 愛語 alone is the second of the four 摂法, and Dōgen 道元's 正法眼蔵 has a famous paragraph on it: 慈念スル衆生ヲ猶ホ如シ赤子ノオモヒヲタクハヘテ言語スルハ。愛語ナリ, to speak cherishing beings as one would an infant is loving speech, and 愛語ヨク迴天ノチカラアルコトヲ學スヘキナリ, learn that loving speech has the power to turn the heavens [54][55]. It is a neighbor that shares the infant with Ryōi and Nanjō, not a source of the four characters.

The phrase in English

1894. Max Müller, The Larger Sukhāvatī-vyūha, Sacred Books of the East 49, part 2, § 10, p. 25. Translating the Sanskrit sutra, not the Chinese, Müller describes Dharmākara [12]: He was gentle, charming indeed, and compassionate; pleasant to live with, agreeable, amiable, content … not deceitful, tender, kindly speaking, always zealous, docile in the searching after the pure Law. The Sanskrit at this point has tender and kindly speaking among some twenty qualities, and the face of the Chinese has no word of its own.

1978. Recent Advances in Gerontology. A paper on old age gives the Buddhist virtue of affectionate words' (priya-alapa in Sanskrit; wagen aigo in Japanese) [13].

1991. Embraced by the Buddha: From Christian to Buddhist. I proposed the school motto of wagen aigo [14]. The school motto, in English, in the sutra's reading.

1992. Mangajin 19. A manga panel, Sō da. Sore o wagan aigo to iu, That's right. It's called wagan aigo, glossed harmonious face, kindly/affectionate words [15].

1995. Eido Shimano and Kogetsu Tani, Zen Word, Zen Calligraphy. Under wagan, Gentle face: This is part of the saying wagan aigo, "gentle face and impressive words" [16]. Impressive is an error: 愛 is love, affection, and nothing in the Japanese or the Sanskrit is about impressing anyone.

1995 and 2003. Hisao Inagaki and Harold Stewart, The Three Pure Land Sutras, pp. 19–20. From the Chinese: His wisdom was unobstructible and his mind free of falsehood and deceitfulness. With expressions of tenderness on his face and with kindness in his speech, he spoke to others in consonance with their inner thoughts. [17] Spoke to others in consonance with their inner thoughts renders 先意承問 as speech fitted to the hearer's mind, which keeps the anticipating and loses the asking.

1997. Dennis Hirota and others, The Collected Works of Shinran, vol. 1, p. 95. Shinran's quotation in the 教行信証: He was free of all thoughts of falsity or deception. Gentle in countenance and loving in speech, he perceived people's thoughts and was attentive to them. [18] The glossary of the second volume romanizes the phrase wagen aigo [56].

Today: JMdict gives with a gentle face and a nice word [11]. Eri Takase brushes the phrase in the modern form, 和顔愛語. A gentle face, loving words renders the four characters word for word; what a rendering must keep is 愛, love, which the Taishō's soft and the Zen book's impressive both lose, and, where it can, the clause that follows in the sutra, which says what the face and the words are for.

A reading

The four characters were a bodhisattva's before they were anyone's household rule. In the sutra they describe what Dharmākara was through ages of practice, and the line does not stop at the face and the words: he anticipated their wishes and received and inquired after them. Huiyuan and Gyeongheung read the face as the body made pure and the words as the mouth made pure. Shinran quoted the passage to show a sincerity that belongs to the Buddha and not to us, practiced for beings who have none of their own. That is one pole of the phrase. The other is the motto, which asks the reader to do it: brothers in a book printed in 1883, a son toward his parents in 1888, the housewife and the girls' school in the 1930s, the post office, the house that would become a House of Growth, the school precept. I do not think the motto betrays the sutra, and the witnesses give the reason. Asai Ryōi, in a commentary first printed in 1670, explained the line's last clause, the anticipating, with a mother answering her infant before it can ask, and Nanjō Bun'yū in 1908 found the same mother in the Confucian books, the filial son's anticipation turned round and the Great Learning's mother who does not hit the infant's wants exactly and is not far off. The figure holds both poles: a care given before it is asked for, to someone who cannot yet ask, is what the sutra says the bodhisattva gave, and it is also what a parent can give. What the figure also keeps is the order of things. The mother's face is gentle because her care is real, and not the other way round; Ryōi's caution that a gentle face out of season falls into flattery, and Yamabe Shūgaku's that a motto without the heart behind it encourages a lie, say the same thing from two centuries apart. A gentle face and loving words are what love looks like from outside, and the sutra's line and its best readers do not let them be taken for a technique. On the reading, I hold both: wagen aigo is the sutra's, and a reader from a Pure Land or Shin family will say it so; wagan aigo is the phrase's reading as a motto standing alone, as the Zen teachers and JMdict give it, and that is how I read the four characters when they hang by themselves on a wall.

Notes

Sources not seen

細田典明 (Hosoda Noriaki), 「「和顔愛語」の原語をめぐって」, 『印度哲学仏教学』 17, 北海道印度哲学仏教学会, 2002, pp. 1–17; National Diet Library bibliographic record 6395427. It is the one study of the Sanskrit original of the phrase that CiNii Research returns. It would settle which Sanskrit words stand behind 和顏 and 愛語, where the history now gives only Müller's English for the Sanskrit sutra.

A reader with access to any of these is invited to write to Takase Studios at Tim@Takase.com.

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