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**The Treasure Repository (Hōzō)** — [Located on an island in the pond behind the Shakyamuni Hall. It houses the temple's foremost sacred treasure, the *Koyas Mandara* (Child-Granting Mandala), along with other temple treasures.]
**The Founding Abbot's Stupa (Kaisan-tō)** — [Located to the left of the main hall. The stone stupas of the Venerable Nichikō, the founding patron Suda Gorō Tokimitsu, and the fourth-generation master, the Venerable Nichiken, stand side by side here. All were erected by Nittsū, the thirty-third resident abbot of this temple, and the circumstances are engraved on the back of the monument. Among the stone stupas there are also two ancient stone monuments bearing an inscription dated the eleventh month of the first year of Kan'ō (1350), carved with the title invocation of the Lotus Sutra, and inscribed below with the words "Nichiren Daishōnin." Other ancient monuments bearing dates from the Eikan, Shitoku, and Tenshō eras are also found here.]
**Temple Treasure: The Great Child-Granting Mandala (Koyas Daimandara)** — [This is in the hand of the sect's founder (Nichiren) himself. As it was through the protection of this mandala that Tokimitsu's wife was delivered safely from a difficult labor, it is held as the foremost treasure of this temple.]
**The Jigen Daishi Letter** — [This is a letter sent to the Venerable Nichiken, the twenty-first abbot of Mt. Minobu.] **The Saddle and Stirrups of Suda Gorō Tokimitsu**
**The Lotus Sutra Opening and Closing Sutras (*Kaiketsu*)** — [Tokimitsu sought prayers from the sect's founder for his wife's difficult delivery, and having been saved through that blessing, copied out the two volumes of the opening and closing sutras — the *Muryōgīkyō* (Sutra of Immeasurable Meanings) and the *Kanfugenkyō* (Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra) — and deposited them at the temple as an act of gratitude.]
**The Image of Kishimojin (Hāritī)** — [The Venerable Nichiken always revered Kishimojin with deep faith and, at the age of thirteen, wrote out the title-text of the Lotus Sutra in minute characters, and from these fashioned a painted image of Kishimojin.]
**The True Bone-Relic (*Shinkotsu no Shari*) of the Sect's Founder** — [At the time of the founder's entry into nirvana, in response to the vow of Tokimitsu, the founding abbot of this temple, the Venerable Nichikō, divided a portion from Mt. Minobu and enshrined it at this temple.] **The Mandala** — [This is written by the founding abbot of this temple, the Venerable Nichikō.] **Portrait of the Venerable Nichiren** — [Said to be the work of Tosa Mitsunbu.] **One Scroll of the Lotus Sutra** — [Written in gold ink on dark blue paper (*konshi kindei*). It is said that Tokimitsu's wife, who later took the religious name Myōtokuni, copied it herself as an act of gratitude. In addition, there are many other items, including Buddhist statues, scripture scrolls, and letters from various revered masters.]
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**The Temple Records State:** In the eighth year of Bun'ei (1271), year of Shinbi (辛未), the Venerable Nichiren was, by order of the government, exiled to the island of Sado for the sake of the Dharma. On the tenth day of the tenth month of that year, the Venerable departed from Sōshū (Sagami Province) and lodged at Kumegawa in Bushū (Musashi Province), arriving at Niikura on the following eleventh day. At that time, Suda Gorō Tokimitsu, the lord of Niikura's castle,
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informed the Venerable that his wife was in the midst of a difficult labor, and begged him for prayers to relieve her suffering. The Venerable took pity on them, prepared a seat beside a small wayside shrine, drew clear water from a nearby spring to use as water for his inkstone, and wrote out a mandala and a talisman for safe childbirth, which he then presented, saying: "If your faith is deep, the birth will surely be safe. Moreover, the child to be born will be a son. When he has grown up, let him take holy orders as a form of gratitude." Having said this, the Venerable departed from the place. That very day, without any delay, the child was born safely, and indeed it was a boy; Tokimitsu's joy knew no bounds. He was especially struck by the miraculous way in which everything the Great Teacher had declared had come true to the letter, and he named the child Tokumaru. [The mandala written at that time is still preserved today and is held as a treasured possession of this temple. Furthermore, the healing blessing for safe childbirth — the Child-Granting Miraculous Talisman (*Koyas no Myōfu*) — was transmitted from the Venerable Nichiren and has been passed down in succession to the present day.]
From that time, Tokimitsu came to revere the faith of the sect, and he formed the great vow to consecrate the place where the Venerable had rested and to establish a temple there. In the eleventh year of the same era (1274), year of Kinōinu (甲戌), after the Venerable received a pardon from Kamakura and subsequently retired to Mt. Minobu, Tokimitsu, in the second year of Kōan (1279), year of Kibō (己卯), traveled with his son Tokumaru to Mt. Minobu's ridge (Enrei), had an audience with the Venerable, and had Tokumaru take the tonsure. [This is none other than the Venerable Nichiken, the fourth abbot of this temple.] Tokimitsu himself also shaved his head and took the religious name Nichitoku. [At this time, the Venerable presented him with a personally inscribed honzon (object of worship). This is still preserved today, and the world calls it too the "Child-Granting Honzon (Koyas no Honzon)."] And thereafter——