Central to Tanaka’s millenarian vision was the honmon no kaidan, the ordination platform of the origin teaching, to be established, according to the Sandai hihō shō, by “imperial edict and shogunal decree.” Substituting the relevant political structure of his own day, Tanaka argued that the mandate for the kaidan’s establishment would now have to come from the Imperial Diet; it would be, in his terms, a kokuritsu kaidan, a “national kaidan” or, literally, a “kaidan established by the state.” To win a majority of sympathizers in both Diet houses, it would be necessary to convert a majority of the Japanese populace by shakubuku. Tanaka depicted a scenario in which, one by one, other religions acknowledging the superior righteousness of the Lotus Sūtra, would declare their own dissolution and convert. Within Buddhism, Hossō and Kegon would capitulate first; their temples, passing to the Nichiren sect, would be respectfully preserved and offered to the state as national treasures. Tendai and Shingon would follow suit, and so, after some initial resistance, would Jōdo and Zen. Jōdo Shinshū and Christianity would resist mightily, and a great Dharma battle would ensue, but before the fifty years were out, the whole nation would embrace the one vehicle, and establishment of the kaidan would be proclaimed.