Mount Minobu

I had been determined all along that if after three attempts to warn the rulers of the nation, my advice still went unheeded, I would leave the country.

With that thought in mind, I accordingly left Kamakura on the 12th day of the fifth month and came here to Mount Minobu.

In the 10th month of the same year, 1274, the Mongols launched their attack.

Not only were the islands of Iki and Tsushima assaulted and captured, but the forces of Daizafu government office in Kyushu were defeated as well.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

Background.

This work is an autobiographical account covering the events of an important period in Nichiren Daishonin's life, from the time shortly before the Tatsunokochi persecution, through his two-and-a-half-year exile on Sado Island, to his eventual retirement to Mount Minobu.

In the course of his struggles over this period of nine years, the Daishonin fulfilled the predictions in the Lotus Sutra concerning his votary, and established himself in both word and deed as the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law.