It can’t be helped if they do not know these things. However, I have been trying for the last 28 years to stop their delusion and tell them that Śākyamuni Buddha is our very master by citing a passage from the “Parable” chapter of the Lotus Sūtra, “This triple world is My domain, in which all living beings are My children.” They not only refused to believe me but also shot an arrow at me, cut me, tried to kill me, exiled me and banished me. Therefore, the Great Bodhisattva Hachiman burned his shrine and went back to heaven. This is what I stated in my “Risshō-ankoku-ron (Treatise on Spreading Peace Throughout the Country by Establishing the True Dharma)” which I submitted to the shogunate.

Chimyō-bō Gohenji, A Reply to Chimyō-bō, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Volume 5, Page 207