Does Taisekiji have authentic Nichiren gohonzons?
 
  A: Nikko left Minobu-san in1288, with about a half dozen Nichiren gohonzons,
  no more than that.  He spent two years at his mother's, then, at the invitation
  of the Nanjo family, went to Taisekiji in 1290.  The original temple at
  Taisekiji was built in 1291.  Nikko left thereafter for Kita-yama Honmonji,
  never to return to Taisekiji.
 
  Nikko left authentic Nichiren gohonzons at various other Nikko temples.  He
  had  very few to give out; there are authentic Nichiren gohonzons at
  Myokakuji in Kyoto, Honnoji in Kyoto, Hokkeji (Kagawa Prefecture),
  Hommanji in Kyoto... these are all Nikko temples who are adamantly
  opposed  to Taisekiji.  The recent defection of three Nichiren Shoshu
  temples is an example of this.  These temples went back to their affiliation
  with the other Nikko temples.
 
  If Taisekiji was established in 1291, after Nichiren's death, and Nikko
  never left an authentic Nichiren gohonzon there, where did they get the
  money or the opportunity to acquire eight other authentic Nichiren
  gohonzons?

  The Nanjo family, of Taisekiji, was very irate that Nikko did not bestow one
  of his authentic gohonzons on them, hence the reason for Nikko departure for
  Kitayam-Honmonji.  Basically, Nikko did not trust the Nanjo's and would not
  part with one of his authentic gohonzons for the benefit of their family temple.
 Taisekiji was a family temple of the Nanjo family until the 18th century.
 
  There were no chances to get Nichiren gohonzons after he died.  The major
  temple  had them, and individual members did not give them up.  So where did
  Taisekiji  manage to get Nichiren gohonzons , unless they manufactured
  them?

 They  cooked up the dai-gohonzon to give themselves credibility.  After all, it
  was a real loss of face that Nikko left them with nothing.....
 
  Does it make logical sense that Taisekiji could have authentic Nichiren
  gohonzons?  How, and when could this have been accomplished?  They were a
  backwater family temple, with no clout in the face of the Kyoto based
  temples of Nikko.  They also were poor and very isolated.  So how could they
  suddenly acquire such riches, long after Nichiren was dead?
 
  It just doesn't pass muster, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.  American
  members, who don't know what's being waved in front of their faces, say that
  they have seen "with their own eyes" these gohonzons.  How do we know
  what they are seeing is authentic?  The priests don't know any better.
  They  are trained to take Taisekiji's word for everything.  It's telling that the
  hundreds of priests who have left Taisekiji in the last twenty years (the
  shoshinkai) have all maintained that the dai-gohonzon is a fake and that the
  Taisekiji priesthood is guilty of many, many lies.
 
  One more point: Ikeda tried to buy an authentic Nichiren gohonzon from
  Nichiren Shu, but was turned down. If there were authentic Nichiren
 gohonzons at Taisekiji, why would he have to seek to buy one from Nichiren
 Shu?  After all, he was financing the whole operation at Taisekiji, so he
 certainly could  have  taken one of these, or found a willing priest to take one  (many priests were in his camp, before the split).   Also, isn't it strange that no one can examine or even view these "treasures" at Taisekiji.  No one is so gullible to accept their defense that "heretics" can't view these things.  After all, they allowed  Roman Catholic bishop and other Western dignitaries to examine the dai-gohonzon,  etc. up close.  This is OK, to let a Catholic cleric see the "most sacred of sacred".  But it's sacrilege to use the "Ode to Joy" as background music, because of Schiller's poetry, which makes reference to God.    Does this make any sense at all?