On the eighth day of the fourth month I met with Hei no Saemonnojō Yoritsuna. I was prepared to withdraw into the mountains and forests as my warnings to the government that would save Japan from destruction went unheeded three times. I left Kamakura on the twelfth day of the fifth month and entered Mt. Minobu. Before coming to Minobu I wanted to return to my hometown and visit my parents’ grave. However, as an edict in Confucianism and Buddhism stipulates that one should return home in glory, it would have been unfilial of me to return home without successfully remonstrating with the government. However, just as I was able to return to Kamakura from exile on Sado Island, where I never imagined it possible to leave alive, I hope that the government might someday heed my warnings. I will visit my parents’ grave then, not under the present circumstances. Even so, I miss my hometown and long to return such that whenever winds and clouds come from the east, I go outside of my hermitage just to feel the wind and see the cloud.

Kōnichi-bō Gosho, A Letter to Nun Kōnichi, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Biography and Disciples, Volume 5, Pages 50