We proceeded along the beach of Yuigahama. In front of the Goryō Shrine, I told the escorting soldiers, “Please stop for a while. Here, I have a person to whom I want to inform about this matter.” I sent a young man named Kumaōmaru to Nakatsukasa Saburōzaemonnojō (Shijō Kingo), who came to see me in a hurry. I told him:

“I am going to be beheaded tonight. This is what I have been longing for the past several years. In the past lives I was born in this Sahā World many times. Sometimes I was born as a pheasant to be captured by a hawk; and other times as a rat to be eaten by a cat. Even when I was born as a human being, I lost my life for my wife, children, and enemies more often than the number of particles of the great earth without sacrificing my life for the sake of the Lotus Sūtra even once. As a result, I was born to this world as a poor monk unable to serve my parents as much as I would like and repay what I owe to my country. This is the time for me to dedicate my head to the Lotus Sūtra and present its merit to my parents and what is left to my disciples and followers. This is what I have been saying these days and it will become a reality tonight.”

Shuju Onfurumai Gosho, Reminiscences: from Tatsunokuchi to Minobu, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Biography and Disciples, Volume 5, Pages 28