Focus on Dai Gohonzon and explain the Parallel legends.
A celebrated Samurai warrior named Taira—no—Morihisa allegedly experienced the same miraculous events similar to the execution of Nichiren at Shichirigahama beach prior to inscribing the Dai Gohonzon mandala eighty-six years earlier. In year 1193 (Kenkyu Year), Morihisa was a surviving warrior that was defeated by the Genji clan after the Genpei War. On the way to Kamakura, he claimed to have received a dream from the Buddhist deities instructing him to recite the Lotus Sutra for salvation. He held on to reading a copy of the Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra dedicated to the goddess Kanzeon. As the executioner prepared to behead him, a great light allegedly appeared from the Sutra scroll which blinded his eyesight and destroyed the executioners sword.
Morihisa presented this miraculous account of testimony to Lord Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Kamakura Shogun of Japan, who claimed he experienced a similar vision and granted him clemency and freedom. Nichiren Shoshu teaches that this account is the same proof that the Dai Gohonzon offers in the nearing advent of Nichiren, who they interpret as the "True Buddha of Compassion" (but disguised as Kanzeon bodhisattva).
Kamakura Kanzeon Lotus Sutra Genji Buddhist deities Minamoto no Yoritomo Samurai Shichirigahama Nichiren Genpei War behead mandala Shogun Nichiren Shoshu Japan Gohonzon