This page is about the Japanese religious leader. For information on KOSA Television see KOSA-TV. K?sa, also known as Honganji Kennyo (??, Kennyo) (1543 – 1592), was the 11th head of the Hongan-ji in Kyoto, and Chief Abbot of Ishiyama Hongan-ji, cathedral fortress of the Ikk?-ikki, during its siege at the end of the Sengoku Period. He engineered many alliances, and organized the defenses of the cathedral to the point that most at the time considered Ishiyama Hongan-ji to be unbreachable. In 1570, Takeda Shingen, a relative of K?sa through marriage, faced not one but three major rivals: Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Uesugi Kenshin. He asked the Abbot for aid, and K?sa persuaded the Ikk? sectarians (also called Monto) in Kaga Province to rise up against Uesugi Kenshin. Several years later, after the death of Takeda Shingen, K?sa secured the aid of the M?ri clan in fighting Oda Nobunaga and defending the

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