You see, Sometimes Hyperbole is the only Rhetorical Device that Makes Sense:

77,000 Buddhist temples in Japan?! And the Imperial Court sometimes calls on them all to work together?!  And but consider that I personally have seen interviews with yamabushi (¡!), many years younger than I, who talk openly and candidly about how they evaded the official suppression of their order, and are now back in business (which is basically magic).  On the fringe of the fringe, and/but deserving, from my point of view, maybe, of a whole lot of real excited ejaculations and exclamation marks, so as adequately to signal their actual extraordinary existence.