Nissei - Nichijo

Japanese: 日静 - にちじょう

Year of death: Ōan 2/Shohei 24.6.27 (1369.7.31)
Year of birth: 1298
A Nichiren sect monk from the late Kamakura period to the Northern and Southern Courts period. He went by the name Myoryuin. Legend has it that his father was from the Uesugi clan and his mother from the Ashikaga clan, and that he was the uncle of Ashikaga Takauji, but this is doubtful. He studied under Maka Ippo Nichiin, and was given the throne of Kamakura Honsho-ji and Echigo Honjo-ji, but in 1338 he was invited by Nichiin's disciple Nichiyu to go to Kyoto, and with the patronage of the Ashikaga clan, he moved Honsho-ji to Rokujo Horikawa and named it Honkoku-ji (later Honkoku-ji). While Nichizo, the pioneer of Kyoto's propagation of Buddhism, was based at Myoken-ji, Nissei carried out his missionary activities from Honkoku-ji. This is why he is said to be the founder of the Rokujo school along with the founding of Kyoto's Honkoku-ji. His disciples included Kentei-in Nichiden and Enkobo Nichijin. <References>Complete History of the Nichiren Sect, Vol. 1, edited by the Nichiren Teaching Research Institute of Rissho University

(Kaoru Sasaki)

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没年：応安2/正平24.6.27(1369.7.31)
生年：永仁6(1298)
鎌倉後期から南北朝時代の日蓮宗の僧。妙竜院と号す。伝えによれば,父は上杉氏,母は足利氏で,足利尊氏の叔父というが疑わしい。摩訶一房日印に師事し,鎌倉本勝寺,越後本成寺を譲られるが,暦応1(1338)年日印の弟子日祐に招かれて上洛,足利家の外護を受け本勝寺を六条堀川に移して本国寺(のち本圀寺)と号す。京都弘通(仏法を広める)の先駆者の日像が妙顕寺に拠ったのに対し,日静はこの本国寺を拠点に布教活動を展開した。京都本圀寺の開山とともに,六条門流の祖といわれる所以である。弟子に建立院日伝,円光房日陣がいる。<参考文献>立正大学日蓮教学研究所編『日蓮教団全史』上

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