Shinran

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"Shinran granted us access to the Pure Land in the afterlife. Offered the way of Buddha to the common folk."

―Mitsumune describing Shinran to Naoe, 1582.

Shinran (親鸞, 21 May 1173 – 16 January 1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and the founder of what later became the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Japanese Buddhism.

Legacy

In 1582, Fujibayashi Naoe met the monk Mitsumune to help gather support for Kyonyo to take on Wada Koretake. Mitsumune and his troops had recently suffered a crushing defeat and were in no condition to fight again, though Mitsumume said he would reconsider if Naoe boosted his soldiers' morale by recovering a stolen statue of Shinran from bandits. After Naoe retrieved the statue from Toneyama Post Town, Mitsumune revealed he no longer felt himself a worthy protector of the figure and instructed her to deliver it to Kyonyo herself.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Shadows (sculpture only)