A man called Nichiren was beheaded at one o’clock during the night of the twelfth day in the ninth month last year. His soul has come to the province of Sado and is writing this in the midst of snow in February in the following year to be sent to his closely related disciples from past lives. As such this writing of mine may sound to you frightening but it should not. How fearful others will be when they read this writing! This is the bright mirror in which Śākyamuni Buddha, the Buddha of Many Treasures, and other Buddhas in manifestation all over the universe reflected the state of Japan in the future, namely through the conditions of Japan today. Consider this as my memento in case I die.

Kaimoku-shō, Open Your Eyes to the Lotus Teaching, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 2, Page 91