[3] Its name refers to Fuju-fuse-gi (不受不施義), a dogma allegedly by Nichiren himself that stated that nothing could be received (不受, Fuju) or given (不施, Fuse) to those of other religions, and that it was wrong to even sit with a priest of another sect.
[5] Two hundred years later, in 1608, in a famous incident Nichiren priest Nichikyō angered Tokugawa Ieyasu refusing to obey him, and had his ears and nose cut off.
[5] With the consolidation of the Tokugawa shogunate, pressure on the recalcitrant Nichiren sect to conform increased, and most of its adherents compromised or capitulated.
[5] The exception were those who would in turn become the Fuju-fuse subsect, whose persecution begun with an incident at Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Thousand-priest Ceremony" (千僧供養) for the dedication of the Daibutsu-den at Hōkō-ji in 1595.
[5] He also sent Hideyoshi a tract called "Rebuke from the Lotus Sect" demanding the ceremony's cancellation, then left at night to shield those around him from the consequences of his act.
[5] His actions split the Nichiren sect in two, with those who thought it admissible to receive from nonbelievers, but not give, on one side, and the Fuju-fuse subsect irreducibles on the other.
[5] If they failed to produce the receipts, Fuju-fuse priests would not any longer be allowed to issue a terauke certificate to their parishioners, who would therefore legally become hinin ("non persons").
The movement responded to the new rules in different ways: most members went underground, some moved to a more accommodating branch of the Nichiren sect, and a few chose to live as outlaws, hiding and holding services at night.