"There has never been a scholar of Buddhism to rival Nichiren Daishonin"

There is [or was] a scholar priest in Japan who determined to study all the Sutras and commentaries that the Daishonin had ever cited. For seventy years, he visited hundreds of temples and Buddhist libraries and read thousands of Sutras, books, and treatises. Now old and frail and no longer able to continue to research all that the Daishonin had written, he stated, "I have examined and researched a mere third of all that the Daishonin had written. There has never been a scholar of Buddhism to rival Nichiren Daishonin."