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2020年 07月 30日

15. Nichiren Suffers the Banishment to Izu. (4)

            Japanese edition


The party of Nichiren went through the dug road of Asahina on May 12 in 1261 and entered Kamakura.

It is said that there were seven excavated roads in Kamakura. This is the road which is dug into the mountain and was constructed, because the three directions from Kamakura are surrounded on the mountain and people and horse were not able to go along.

With Nichiren in the lead, the group of the disciples goes ahead through the Wakamiya thoroughfare.

The people were surprised equally.

“He is probably Nichiren of the Lotus Sutra!”

Everybody was surprised that Nichiren was living.

“I wish a fuss should not happen again, for having been able to come back to Kamakura.”

The women stared at Nichiren in uneasy mind.


The robust armored warriors protected the gate in the shogunate administrative building.

Nichiren looks up at the gate and enters.

There was a large garden in the grand building. There is nobody. A samurai of the guard only stood.

The official led and guided to Nichiren.

Only one piece of poor straw mat is spreading in the garden. This is regarding Nichiren as a criminal. But Nichiren does not change an expression at all to think that an anticipated thing came perhaps.

The official pointed to the straw mat.

"Here, sit down."

Nichiren sat down slowly and crossed his legs for sitting with crossed legs namely the full-lotus position.

Three government officials came out. And they looked down at Nichiren of the straw mat.

“We bring to you a verdict of guilty as Izu banishment”.

This is a hasty judgment.

Nichiren watched straight a government official.

The government official reads a matter-of-factly following sentence aloud.

“You assumed the Lotus Sutra the foremost and you said that Nembutsu is the worst hell and the Zen Buddhism is the behavior of the evil spirit. Your slander in this way is not a light crime. In addition, you quarreled in various places of Kamakura, and the guilty proofs that let the Buddhist priest of each incommode are clear. Besides, you committed incendiarism in Matsuba Valley of Kamakura last year, it is clear from many witnesses to have confounded this world. Although capital punishment and decapitation are fair for such many serious offenses, we are blamed from the god Hachiman if we execute the people wearing the clothes of the priest at random. Thus, we command deportation to the Izu.”

The government official was going to stand up immediately when he declared the ruling, but Nichiren stopped it.
 "Please wait! It is not getting to the bottom of a matter about the cause of the crime. Is it not the top priority to do you command the priests of each sect and gather them, and to determine right or wrong? Otherwise, it is far from the right principles of the politics. The rules of the Formulary of Adjudications are...".
 The officials have, left as if cannot hear it.

Two samurais approached instead. Two people have icy stares together like as watching a criminal.


Jonin and disciples had been waiting outside.

Everybody wore troubled expressions on their face.

Nichiren who rode a horse before long appeared. He has a contorted facial expression.

While Nichiren was surrounded by samurais, he passed.

Jonin watched these samurai and muttered.

"They may be the officials in charge of the criminals".

Nichiro almost cries and runs.

"Shonin received a peremptory deportation decree to the Izu!".

"What, does Nichiren shonin be exiled?".

Usually gentle Jonin shouts without even thinking.

Nichiren is riding on a horse and passes their very front.


           Continued to (5)


Life of Nichiren. Vol. 1. Contents



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