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Hojo Tokimune (1251-1284)
8th Regent of the Kamakura Shogunate (1268-1284)

- In 1268, after Mongol's demanded Japan's submission, Nichiren Daishonin wrote
Tokimune a letter saying that the government should refrain from supporting heretical
sects of Buddhsim and instead take faith in Daishonin's true Buddhism, but Hojo
Tokimune did not heed the Daishonin's words.
- Never fully agreeing with the severe presecution of Nichiren Daishonin,  in 1274
revoked the edit which banished Nichiren Daishonin to Sado Island in 1271.
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Again, Hojo Tokimune is the ruler of Japan, but by his conduct he has called down
on himself an enemy almost as great as the entire world.

                                                                                                  "The Three Obstacles and Four Devils"
                                                                                                   Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 2