Gon’yo ［厳誉］ (n.d.): The administrator of Shijūku-in, a temple of the Tendai school, in Kambara in Suruga Province, Japan, during the Kamakura period (1185–1333). Nikkō, who was later to become Nichiren’s successor, had originally entered the priesthood at Shijūku-in and studied there. In the course of his propagation efforts in the Fuji area in the 1270s, Nikkō often visited the temple, and he converted several of its young priests including Nichiji, Kenshū, and Shōken. Shortly before the Atsuhara Persecution, Gon’yo expelled Nikkō, Kenshū, Shōken, and Nichiji from the temple, asserting that they were preaching erroneous teachings.