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Studying the Spirit of Nichiren Daishonin

Nichiren Daishonin: A Great Compassionate Vow for the Happiness of Humanity

01 Oct, 2025

(10) The Tatsunokuchi Persecution – Part 2

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01 Oct, 2025

Af‌ter his arrest on the 12th day of the ninth month of 1271, Nichiren Daishonin was detained at the residence of Hōjō Nobutoki, the military governor of Sado Province. Nichiren
was 50.

He later described his predicament in “Letter to Shimoyama”:

In the eighth year of Bun’ei [1271], on the twelf‌th day of the ninth month, though I was not guilty of the slightest fault, I was exiled to the province of Sado. 

Ostensibly I was being banished to a distant region, but secretly it had been decided that I would have my head cut of‌f.

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