Please relay the following to Jōken-bō, Gijō-bō, and others: “It is not due to any worldly crime on my part that I came close to being killed on numerous occasions, banished twice, and nearly beheaded. As a youngster, I was once given the great wisdom from the Bodhisattva Space Repository in human form. Probably feeling pity for me due to my prayers pleading to become the wisest man in Japan, a large gem as big as the morning star was given to me, which I received in my right sleeve. As a result I was able to read all the scriptures of Buddhism, perceiving the comparative superiority among the eight schools and among all the scriptures of Buddhism.

Seichōji Daishū-chū, A Letter to the People of the Seichōji Temple, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Volume 5, Page 174