Atsuhara Honan - Atsuhara Honan

Japanese: 熱原法難 - あつはらほうなん

This was an incident of oppression committed against Nichiren's disciples in Atsuhara, Fuji County, Suruga Province (present-day Atsura, Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture) in 1279. At the time, Nichiren's disciple Nikko spread the Lotus Sutra throughout Suruga Province, and the monks Nisshu and Nichiben of the Tendai sect Ryusenji Temple (present-day Ryusenji Temple) in Atsuhara were also disciples of Nikko. Hirachi, the head priest of Ryusenji Temple, was not happy with this and filed a complaint with the Kamakura Shogunate alleging that Nisshu had engaged in karitarouzeki (harvesting and stealing crops from other people's fields) with the peasants of Atsuhara. Nisshu and his comrades claimed that this was unfounded and instead sued Gyōchi, but three of the peasants who were escorted to Kamakura were beheaded. Nichiren did not see this incident as a local incident, but as oppression of all Nichiren sect followers, and called for unity among his disciples and disciples. Nisshu and Niben escaped to Nichiren's house in Minobu, Kai Province (present Minobu Town, Yamanashi Prefecture) and escaped the disaster. →Kuonji Temple

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Japanese:

1279年に駿河国富士郡熱原（現，静岡県富士市厚原）の日蓮の門弟に加えられた弾圧事件。当時，日蓮の弟子日興(にっこう)は駿河国へ法華経を広め，熱原の天台宗滝泉(りゅうせん)寺（現同上）の住僧日秀(にっしゅう)・日弁(にちべん)らも日興の弟子となっていた。これを快く思わなかった滝泉寺院主代の平行智は，日秀が熱原の百姓を伴って刈田狼藉(かりたろうぜき)（他人の田畑の作物を刈り取り奪うこと）を行ったとして鎌倉幕府に訴えた。日秀らは，これを事実無根として逆に行智を訴えたが，鎌倉に護送された百姓のうち３名が斬首となった。日蓮はこの事件を局地的な事件とは見ずに，すべての日蓮宗徒への弾圧と捉え，弟子や門弟などに結束を呼びかけている。なお日秀・日弁は，甲斐国身延(みのぶ)（現山梨県身延町）の日蓮のもとへ避難し，難を逃れている。→久遠寺

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