Moreover, in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), it burned down 21 head temples of the Nichiren Sect in Kyoto when they rejected its demand to become its matsuji through the excuse of sect conflict between the followers of the Nichiren Sect and Buddhist monks of Saito (Western Section) of Mt. Hiei (Tenbun Hokke War).
更に戦国時代_(日本)には京都の日蓮宗寺院21本山に対して末寺になるように要求して拒絶されると、日蓮宗宗徒と比叡山西塔の僧侶の宗論を口実にこれらの寺院を焼き払った（天文法華の乱）。