Listen up Soka Gakkai and Nichiren Shoshu, the Object of Devotion according to Nichiren is Shakyamuni Buddha

"The object of devotion as set forth in the “Life Span” chapter is Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, eternally endowed with the three bodies, who since the beginning of numberless major world system dust particle kalpas in the past has had deep and abiding affinities with this land of ours." On the Receiving of the Three Great Secret Laws

Just as very few Soka Gakkai have studied the Lotus Sutra, they are even less familiar with the Writings of Nichiren Volume 2. However, all the Soka Gakkai leaders are quite familiar with the novel the Human Revolution, a work of self serving fiction by their guru Daisaku Ikeda.