Nittatsu Hosoi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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66th High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Nittatsu Hosoi
- Nittatsu Hosoi (????, Hosoi Nittatsu also known as Nittatsu Shonin; 15 April 1902, Tokyo – 22 June 1979) was the 66th High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu and chief priest of the school's Head Temple Taisekiji in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
- Previously, he served as chief priest at Hondenji temple in Osaka and Jozaiji temple in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Nittatsu was the first High Priest to publicly criticize Soka Gakkai for allegedly deviating from the traditional doctrines of Nichiren Shoshu and later rebuked its senior leaders to remove the Dai Gohonzon from their funded building, the Shohondo, later demolished by his successor Nikken Abe.
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