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2020年 08月 04日

17. Persecution of Komatsubara that Nichiren Suffered a Wound in Forehead (4)

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From the Biography of Nichiren Daishonin

The servant panicked and ran into the Yoshitaka Kudo's residence.

Low dining tables were displayed, and the living room of the Yoshitaka's house was in the middle of preparing to welcome the party of Nichiren. The servant dashed in there and cried.

“Priest Nichiren is being attacked in a little way from here by the army of Tojo. Immediately help him!”.

Yoshitaka gets angry and gives the command.

"What? Everybody. March out to battle! We have no time to wear an armor. Take a sword and ride a horse immediately!".

Nichiren and disciples fought back desperately in the road of the nightfall. But they stand no chance against such superior numbers. It was a matter of time to be exterminated.

The mounted samurai cuts a shoulder of Nichiro. He could not stand it and he fell down.

The left arm of Nichiren was hit with the stick that a soldier swung hard. It seems his bone was broken. The bleeding of the forehead dyes a thin gray robe red. The situation was hopeless.

Yoshitaka Kudo has arrived at this time and charged at the army of Tojo to fight alone on horseback. The siege that surrounded Nichiren was removed.

Yoshitaka who rode a horse rebuke Kagenobu.

“Kagenobu Tojo, what an unbelievable behavior you have on my territory! Did you go mad to kill a monk? It is certain that the Tojo clan gets a punishment of the extinction if lord Kamakura has known”.

Kagenobu was daunted for an instant, but his feeling was getting hot like Asura and shouted arrogantly.

"How good, you are like a moth flying into the flame. Go to hell with Nichiren”.

The land steward must obey the feudal lord. However, this moral was impossible if they cross swords with each other. The person who won has justice regardless of a feudal lord and a land steward.

The vassals of Yoshitaka also came for helping and Komatsubara became a battlefield.

Nichiren held the left arm and left from the battling place.

Kagenobu does not miss it. He raised a sword highly and drove a horse and rushed.

Kagenobu caught a perfect opportunity and swung a sword to a back of Nichiren, but Kyoninbo blocked it standing in an instant.

Kyoninbo was cut aslant through the shoulder and fell over with a thud.

Nichiren holds Kyoninbo in his arms.

"Kyoninbo!".

Kyoninbo smiled seeing eyes of Nichiren.

"Shonin, are you safe?".

Kyoninbo was going to chant the daimoku aloud with one hand, but he breathed his last like that.

Kagenobu of wild beast got excited seeing blood of Kyoninbo. He exclaimed madly while laughing.

“I did the useless killing. Nichiren, the fault is yours. Is your last!”.

Nichiren felt unprecedented anger. He picked up a halberd of Kyoninbo and hit it at Kagenobu riding on a horse. But Kagenobu dodges it skillfully.

Kagenobu cut away the hilt of the halberd of Nichiren while fighting a duel.

Nichiren falls down on the ground by this shock.

Kagenobu won and was proud.

"Nichiren, are you ready?".

Kagenobu dashes straight on to Nichiren.

Nichiren who became barehanded prepared for death and shouted in a loud voice.

“There is a king, vassal and all the people who look down on and despise the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra in the Latter-Day of the Law. They become extinct at last even if the beginning is safe!”.

A mysterious thing happened here.

Kagenobu was going to swing a sword, but the horse began to rage and the horse did not hear even what he said. It does not stop even if he commanded.

Kagenobu soothes it hard.

“What is wrong? Are you crazy?”

When Kagenobu tried to kill Nichiren, his horse kicked his hind leg and he could not even get off his horse.

Kagenobu has begun to get impatient. The soldiers also accompanying him were robbed of time to fight.

“Hey, hey!”.

When a horse greatly raised forefoot suddenly, the reins made a sound mysteriously and broke off, and Kagenobu was splashed. And he fell on a rock off the road on his back and hit the back scathingly.

Scream of death throes of Kagenobu echoes.

The vassals of Kagenobu had daunted hearing this voice. They retreated with Kagenobu in their arms.


      Continued to (5)


Life of Nichiren. Vol. 1. Contents



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