the Dai Gohonzon image and other Nichiren mandalas stored within the Head Temple. He concluded that the Dai Gohonzon stored at Taiseki-ji was created using different sheets traced from at least two other Nichiren mandalas. His Colleague Hori Nichiko Shonin strongly disagreed with his conclusion, and dealt very critically with claims against the authenticity of the Dai-Gohonzon. The leaked journals of Reverend Jitoku Kawabe During the 1990s, a controversial intrigue involving the 67th High Priest Nikken Abe Shonin was exposed in the Japanese media by the Soka Gakkai, claiming that the retrieved extant notes of a senior priest, Reverend Jitoku Kawabe (19 November 1929 — 10 November 2002, former Chief Priest of Keidai-ji Temple in Tokushima Prefecture) wrote in his 7 February 1978 private journals at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo that the High Priest Nikken Shonin was fully aware that the Dai-Gohonzon was not authentic. As a result, Kawabe publicly apologized for his leaked notes, recanting them to exonerate any involvement with the 67th High Priest, citing his own poor memory and careless discretion. 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). Dai-Gohonzon replicas In addition to the Nichiren Shoshu sect, other mandalas given the appellation of "Dai Gohonzon" are in the possession of the Kitayama Honmonji sect, the Fujisan Honmon Shoshu sect and one by Soka Gakkai.