安土桃山時代に関白豊臣秀吉が亡き母大政所の回向のための千僧供養に日蓮宗の僧侶も出仕を命じる事件が起きた(1595年)。
In the Azuchi-momoyama Period, Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, who was then kanpaku (chief advisor to the Emperor), ordered Nichiren Sect Buddhist monks to attend senso-kuyo (a memorial service conducted by one thousand priests) to be held for the purpose of praying for the repose of his late mother Omandokoro (1595).
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