Note: The titles of writings addressed to two or more persons appear after the name of each recipient. The numbers in parentheses following each title indicate the opening page in this volume.
Abutsu-bō: ・On the Treasure Tower (299)
Akimoto Tarō: ・Letter to Akimoto (1014)
Dōmyō, lay priest: ・Letter to the Lay Priest Dōmyō (750)
Endō Saemon-no-jō: ・Letter to Endō Saemon-no-jō (454)
Enjō-bō: ・Banishment to Sado (202)
Funamori Yasaburō: ・The Izu Exile (35)
Gijō-bō: ・The Tripitaka Master Shan-wu-wei (166); ・Letter to Gijō-bō (389); ・On Repaying Debts of Gratitude (690); ・Flowering and Bearing Grain (909)
Hakiri Saburō: ・Reply to Hakiri Saburō (405)
Hiki Yoshimoto, wife of: ・The Recitation of the “Expedient Means” and “Life Span” Chapters (68)
Hōjō Tokiyori: ・On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land (6)
Hōjō Yagenta: ・The Swords of Good and Evil (451)
Hōkan: ・The Rationale for Writing “On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land” (161)
Hoshina Gōrō Tarō: ・Reply to Hoshina Gorō Tarō (155)
Ichinosawa, wife of the lay priest: ・Letter to the Lay Priest Ichinosawa (526)
Ikegami Munenaga: ・Letter to the Brothers (493); ・The Three Obstacles and Four Devils (636); ・A Father Takes Faith (845)
Ikegami Munenaka: ・Letter to the Brothers (493); ・“This Person Advances through the World” (1011)
Jakunichi-bō: ・Letter to Jakunichi-bō (993)
Jibu-bō: ・Reply to Jibu-bō (1094)
Jibu-bō’s grandmother: ・On Offerings for Deceased Ancestors (817)
Jōken-bō: ・The Tripitaka Master Shan-wu-wei (166); ・On Repaying Debts of Gratitude (690); ・Flowering and Bearing Grain (909)
Kanabara: ・Lessening One’s Karmic Retribution (199)
Kō, lay nun of: ・Letter to the Lay Nun of Kō (595)
Kō, lay priest of: ・Reply to the Lay Priest of Kō (491)
Kōnichi, lay nun: ・Letter to Kōnichi-bō (659); ・The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra (763)
Kubo, lay nun of: ・Roots of Good Fortune (1103)
Kudō Yoshitaka: ・The Four Debts of Gratitude (41)
Kyō’ō: ・Reply to Kyō’ō (412)
Matsuno Rokurō Saemon: ・The Fourteen Slanders (755); ・Reply to Matsuno (843); ・No Safety in the Threefold World (891)
Matsuno Rokurō Saemon, wife of: ・The One-eyed Turtle and the Floating Log (957)
Matsuno Rokurō Saemon-no-jō, wife of: ・Reply to the Wife of Matsuno (981)
Misawa Kojirō: ・Letter to Misawa (894)
Myōhō, lay nun: ・How Those Initially Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood through the Lotus Sutra (872); ・The One Essential Phrase (922); ・Reply to the Lay Nun Myōhō (1105)
Myōichi, lay nun: ・Winter Always Turns to Spring (535); ・The Meaning of Faith (1036)
Myōichi-nyo: ・The Doctrine of Attaining Buddhahood in One’s Present Form (1052)
Myōmitsu: ・The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra (667)
Myōshin, lay nun: ・On Upholding Faith in the Gohonzon (624); ・The Good Medicine for All Ills (937)
Nakaoki, wife of the lay priest: ・Letter to the Lay Priest Nakaoki (1005)
Nanjō Hyōe Shichirō: ・Encouragement to a Sick Person (76)
Nanjō Tokimitsu: ・Good Fortune in This Life (654); ・The Story of Ōhashi no Tarō (675); ・The Workings of Brahmā and Shakra (798); ・The Two Kinds of Faith (899); ・The Teaching for the Latter Day (902); ・Reply to Tokimitsu (925); ・Persecution by Sword and Staff (962); ・The Dragon Gate (1002); ・The Third Day of the New Year (1013); ・On Filial and Unfilial Conduct (1033); ・The Wealthy Man Sudatta (1086); ・The Person and the Law (1097); ・The Proof of the Lotus Sutra (1108)
Nichigen-nyo: ・Easy Delivery of a Fortune Child (186); ・The Gods Same Birth and Same Name (315); ・Reply to Kyō’ō (412); ・The Unity of Husband and Wife (463); ・Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (1080)
Nichigon, lay nun: ・Reply to the Lay Nun Nichigon (1079)
Nichimyō: ・Letter to the Sage Nichimyō (321)
Nichinyo: ・The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon (831); ・An Outline of the “Entrustment” and Other Chapters (911)
Nichirō: ・Letter to Priest Nichirō in Prison (204)
Niiama: ・Reply to Niiama (466)
Niike Saemon: ・The Teaching That Accords with the Buddha’s Mind (967); ・Letter to Niike (1026)
Nishiyama, lay priest: ・Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain (598); ・The Mongol Envoys (628); ・The Unmatched Blessings of the Law (973)
Omosu, wife of: ・New Year’s Gosho (1137)
Ōnichi-nyo: ・Reply to Ōnichi-nyo (1089)
Ōta Jōmyō: ・Lessening One’s Karmic Retribution (199); ・On Curing Karmic Disease (631)
Oto: ・The Supremacy of the Law (612)
Sairen-bō: ・The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life (216); ・Reply to Sairen-bō (309); ・On Prayer (336); ・The True Aspect of All Phenomena (383); ・The Entity of the Mystic Law (417)
Sajiki, lady of: ・The Offering of an Unlined Robe (533)
Sammi-bō: ・The Teaching, Practice, and Proof (473)
Sennichi, lay nun: ・On Offering Prayers to the Mandala of the Mystic Law (414); ・The Embankments of Faith (625); ・The Sutra of True Requital (928); ・The Drum at the Gate of Thunder (948); ・The Treasure of a Filial Child (1041)
Shiiji Shirō: ・A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering (33)
Shijō Kingo: ・The Birth of Tsukimaro (188); ・The Origin of the Service for Deceased Ancestors (190); ・The Persecution at Tatsunokuchi (196); ・The Opening of the Eyes (220); ・Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment (317); ・The Pure and Far-Reaching Voice (328); ・Reply to Kyō’ō (412); ・On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins (435); ・On Recommending This Teaching to Your Lord and Avoiding the Offense of Complicity in Slander (460); ・The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith (471); ・The Royal Palace (488); ・On Omens (644); ・Happiness in This World (681); ・On Consecrating an Image of Shakyamuni Buddha Made by Shijō Kingo (683); ・Propagation by the Wise (752); ・The Eight Winds (794); ・The Letter of Petition from Yorimoto (803); ・A Warning against Begrudging One’s Fief (823); ・The Hero of the World (835); ・The Wonderful Means of Surmounting Obstacles (842); ・The Three Kinds of Treasure (848); ・Unseen Virtue and Visible Reward (907); ・The Two Kinds of Illness (919); ・The Farther the Source, the Longer the Stream (940); ・The Receipt of New Fiefs (945); ・General Stone Tiger (952); ・On Persecutions Befalling the Sage (996); ・The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra (1000); ・The Place of the Cluster of Blessings (1069)
Shōmitsu-bō: ・Letter to Shōmitsu-bō (863)
Soya Dōsō: ・King Rinda (983)
Soya Kyōshin: ・Lessening One’s Karmic Retribution (199); ・Reply to the Lay Priest Soya (486); ・Letter to Hōren (505); ・The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood (746); ・“This Is What I Heard” (859)
Takahashi Rokurō Hyōe: ・Reply to the Lay Priest Takahashi (605); ・The Properties of Rice (1117)
Toki Jōnin: ・On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime (3); ・Letter from Echi (194); ・Letter from Teradomari (206); ・Aspiration for the Buddha Land (213); ・Letter from Sado (301); ・The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind Established in the Fifth Five-Hundred-Year Period after the Thus Come One’s Passing (354); ・The Problem to Be Pondered Night and Day (620); ・A Sage Perceives the Three Existences of Life (641); ・On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice (783); ・The Third Doctrine (854); ・On Establishing the Four Bodhisattvas as the Object of Devotion (976); ・A Comparison of the Lotus and Other Sutras (1037); ・The Treatment of Illness (1111)
Toki Jōnin, wife of: ・The Bow and Arrow (656); ・On Prolonging One’s Life Span (954)
Ueno, lay nun: ・The Essence of the “Medicine King” Chapter (91); ・Hell Is the Land of Tranquil Light (456); ・Reply to the Mother of Ueno (1072); ・The Gift of Clear Sake (1091); ・Wu-lung and I-lung (1099)
Utsubusa, lady of: ・White Horses and White Swans (1061)
Yasaburō: ・Reply to Yasaburō (827)
Yui: ・The Selection of the Time (538)
Followers in general: ・Letter from Sado (301); ・On Practicing the Buddha’s Teachings (391); ・On the Buddha’s Prophecy (398); ・The Votary of the Lotus Sutra Will Meet Persecution (447); ・On Persecutions Befalling the Sage (996)
Priests of Seichō-ji temple: ・Letter to the Priests of Seichō-ji (650)
Recipients unknown: ・The Universal Salty Taste (39); ・The Teaching, Capacity, Time, and Country (48); ・Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra (55); ・Opening the Eyes of Wooden and Painted Images (85); ・Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man (99); ・The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra (141); ・The Essence of the “Life Span” Chapter (182); ・Many in Body, One in Mind (618); ・Reply to the Followers (901); ・Reply to a Believer (905); ・The Sons Pure Storehouse and Pure Eye (1049); ・Great Evil and Great Good (1119); ・The Kalpa of Decrease (1120); ・The Gift of Rice (1125); ・The Bodies and Minds of Ordinary Beings (1128)