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2020年 08月 17日

29. Warning to Yoritsuna Tirano. 4

  Japanese Edition

29. Warning to Yoritsuna Tirano. 4_f0301354_17323889.jpg

Reply to Nun Kuboama. Hota Myohoji Temple possesses a part of this genuine letter.


Nichiren speaks to Yoritsuna as like persuading.

“You are the leader of the world. Why are you going to spoil a pillar saving Japan? You should think of a national crisis above all, and it will be vital to repel a foreign enemy by all means. It is called loyalty that one makes the world peaceful and safe, and it is filial duty to make a nation peaceful and safe. I do not state for my own sake. I state for the sake of Japan, for the sake of the Shogunate, and for the people.”

The member in the hall was overawed by the spirit of Nichiren, but only Yoritsuna continued booing Nichiren.

“Get out! A beggar monk of Awa! 'Nembutsu is hell, the Zen is an evil spirit', you indulge with a bad-mouth and you store a soldier's stick and make trouble. You, to the contrary, will fall into the hell. I will cut off your neck emphatically!”

Abusive language of Yoritsuna does not stop.

Nichiren recollected Tojo Kagenobu who was the land steward of Awa. He exerted a limit of the tyranny, but Kagenobu is no match for Yoritusna, too. Though Kagenobu was only one land steward, Yoritsuna substantially managed the affairs of the country. Nichiren would write down a state of this later.


“Hearing this, the magistrate Heino Saemonnojo, forgetting all the dignity, became wild with rage as like the lay priest [Kiyomori Taira] of minister of state.”The Acts of the Saint


Yoritsuna had expressed the character of the madness inherent like Kiyomori Taira. Gokurakuji Ryoukan expressed the inherent character of the arrogant counterfeit saint, and Yoritsuna revealed his inherent character as the demon king of the sixth Heaven.

Nichiren was not surprised at an expected reaction of Yoritsuna and he remained calm and left the military headquarters.

Even after Nichiren left, Yoritsuna Taira stood grasping his fist.

He took pride in oneself as the person who is ruling over present Japan. He had thought that there was not the person who excelled him other than Tokimune of the sovereign. He looked down upon even Yasumori Adachi of the vassal. However, this high self-conceit was shattered by Nichiren.

(There is the person raising a hand against me).

A wick of the light was in one room of military headquarters and lights up Yoritsuna Taira and Hojo Nobutoki weirdly.

Yoritsuna began to talk.

“It is in danger. I have not ever watched such that man. Will become the serious affair if we let him alone."

Nobutoki says uneasily.

“However, how will our young lord, do the action? It is a problem. Our Lord seems to protect Nichiren.”

Yoritsuna asserted it as if he shook off uneasiness of Nobutoki.

“Our lord is still young. Our turn is from now. We will dispose of Nichiren secretly. When we finish it without a mistake and if we report to the lord, lord Tokimune cannot interfere anymore. Namely, it is the day after a festival."

It was an intrigue which would murder Nichiren. Yoritsuna decided to execute Nichiren. It is a means which the aide to dictator uses. If he reports it to Tokimune as a treated case after having executed Nichiren, even if Tokimune get angry and even if there was a trouble, the lord cannot but think it as if nothing had happened when time passes finally.

Nichiren was seeing through their essence. He writes about it in the ‘Reply to Nun Kuboama.'


“Thus, I only feel pity for the ruler and for the country of Japan. For example, the insects protected by a tree's shade eat away at the tree and topple a tree and the worms inside a lion's body eat a lion and kill it. Those people protected by the lord of Sagami, under cover of his authority, threaten populace, causing them anguish and bother. In addition, claiming that it is in the order of the ruler, they attempt to wipe out the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, causing the destruction of the nation and inviting the ruin of their lord. What pitiful people!”


The lord of Sagami is Tokimune. Yoritsuna does not understand here in the least bit that a misfortune will befall himself by punishing Nichiren.


Continues to 5


Life of Nichiren. Vol. 1. Contents



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