Editing Nichiren (section)

=== Death ===
[[File:Two-storied Pagoda of Ikegami Honmon-ji Tokyo.jpg|thumb|185px|Memorial tower erected on the spot where Nichiren was cremated in 1282 ([[Ikegami Honmon-ji|Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple]], Tokyo)]]
In 1282, after years of seclusion, Nichiren fell ill. His followers encouraged him to travel to the hot springs in Hitachi for their medicinal benefits. He was also encouraged by his disciples to travel there for the warmer weather, and to use the land offered by Hagiri Sanenaga for recuperation. En route, unable to travel further, he stopped at the home of a disciple in [[Ikegami Honmon-ji|Ikegami]], outside of present-day Tokyo, and died on 13 October  1282. According to legend, he died in the presence of fellow disciples after having spent several days lecturing from his sickbed on the Lotus Sutra, writing a final letter, and leaving instructions for the future of his movement after his death, namely the designation of the six senior disciples. His funeral and cremation took place the following day.<ref name=Stone2003 />{{rp|261}}<ref name=Anesaki1916 />{{rp|133}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zb1LPTPJLaYC&q=nichiren&pg=PR8|title=The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan|last=Gerhart|first=Karen M.|date=2009|pages=114–116|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3261-2|access-date=3 October 2020|archive-date=3 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603050103/https://books.google.com/books?id=Zb1LPTPJLaYC&q=nichiren&pg=PR8|url-status=live}}</ref>

His disciples left Ikegami with Nichiren's ashes on 21 October, reaching back to Minobu on 25 October.

* [[Nichiren Shu]] sects claims his tomb is sited, as per his request, at [[Kuon-ji]] on Mount Minobu where his ashes remain.<ref name=Stone2003 />{{rp|321}}
* [[Nichiren Shoshu]] asserts that [[Nikko Shonin]] later confiscated his cremated ashes along with other articles and brought them to Mount Fuji which, they say are now enshrined on the left side next to the [[Dai Gohonzon]] within the ''Hoando'' storage house.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}<!-- The source cited is for Nichiren's own desire to be interred there, not for his tomb actually being sited there. ~Hijiri88, August 2015. -->{{refn |group=note |1="please build my grave on Mount Minobu, because that is where is where I spent nine years reciting the Lotus Sutra to my heart's content. My heart lives forever on Mount Minobu"<ref>{{cite book |last=Montgomery |first=Daniel |date=1991 |title=Fire in the Lotus: The Dynamic Religion of Nichiren |location=London |publisher=Mandala |isbn=978-1-85274-091-7 |page=144}}</ref>}}