This volume contains two works by the founder of the Nichiren Shu school.The Risshoankokuron takes the form of a dialogue betweeen a traveler and a master about the troubled state of affairs in the country. It prophesies an invasion from the sea and is sharply critical of the regent at the time.Kanjinhonzonsho was written to reveal the Most Venerable One as Nichiren conceived it.
This thirteenth-century text by Nichiren extols the Lotus Sutra and critiques the other schools of Japanese Buddhism active at that time. Nichiren was arrested by the Kamakura government in 1271 and sentenced to exile on Sado Island. There he was in constant danger of assassination, and wrote the Kaimokusho to convince his remaining followers to follow his example in Buddhism.To do this, Nichiren criticized religions other than Buddhism, and then Buddhist sutras other than the Lotus Sutra . He asked the question "Am I not the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra and answered this question by quoting five testimonies to the truthfulness of his faith. He also identifies the three kinds of arrogant people and equates them with the three kinds of enemies of the Lotus Sutra .