sentences:  Akegarasu died August 27, 1954.The earliest English translation of Akegarasu's writings can be found in "Selections From The Nippon Seishin Library", which Akegarasu published in 1936 (translators Hata Taigan, Hanaoka Kimi, Imadate Tosui and others).In 1977 to commemorate the centennial of Akegarasu's birth, two ministers of the Buddhist Temple of Chicago who were his direct students published their translations