Daishin-bō ［大進房］ (d. 1279): A priest who lived in Fuji District of Suruga Province in Japan during the time of Nichiren. Gyōchi, the deputy chief priest of Ryūsen-ji temple, persuaded him to join in harassing Nikkō and other followers of Nichiren in the area. Daishin-bō was in the group that went to arrest twenty of the peasant-believers in Atsuhara on the twenty-first day of the ninth month, 1279, on false charges of stealing the rice crop. The peasants resisted, and in the melee he was thrown from his horse and died.