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Nichiren’s defiance of both Zen and Jodo (“Pure Land”) Buddhism eventually persuaded the shogunate to order him beheaded on a hill to the south of Hase.
Later, in 1337, the Nichiren sect built the Ryukoji temple on the same hill.
Before he could try again, a messenger arrived with an order commuting Nichiren’s sentence to exile on the island of Sadogashima.
No account of this area would be complete without the story of Nichiren (1222–1282), the monk who founded the only native Japanese sect of Buddhism.