The Matsubaga-yatsu

Matsubaga-yatsu (29Kb)

There was no answer or question for "Rissho Ankoku Ron" from Kamakura Bakufu but a night attack on August 27th in the first year of Bun'no (1260), called the Honan of Matsubaga-yatsu, by religious mod of Nembutsu-shu. They thought that they could kill him without crime because dignitaries of the Bakufu had ignored his paper and that he was a man of security risk for established authorities.

Priest Nichiren miraculously escaped from the thousand of siege in Matsubaga-yatsu Valley, as an asian proverb goes, "A true saint never meets a violent death."

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