I am Shonyo, the Honganji Monshu (that is, head of the Honganji temple) and thus I preside over the Jodo Shinsu, the True Pure Land sect, also known as the Ikko sect.
There are confederations of the Ikko sect, known as Ikki, throughout central and eastern Japan. The entire province of Kaga is under the direct control of our temple in Kanazawa, there are no Daimyo there at all. We also have considerable influence in Izumi, where we possess a mighty temple fortress at Ishiyama.
Our chief temple however, is the Honganji, near Kyoto. It is here that the vast organizational structure is centered.
We have temples elsewhere as well. Large ones to be noted are in Nagashima, in Ise, in Kasugayama, in Echigo, and of course in Ichijo no dani, in Echizen, another province where many flock to our sect.
I do not aim to become Shogun nor even to spread my lands as others seek to. I seek only to protect the adherants of my sect and those who would seek to open their arms to the faith. New Ikko-Ikki often spring up in areas where peasants or jizamurai (yeomen warriors) are disatisfied with their daimyo or local lord and seek a new order and I am there to protect them.
Those who would challenge this should fear me.
Those who would not need not worry about me.
Those who would seek to aid me can expect my aid in return.

(OOC for those not familiar with the Ikko-Ikki: they were perhaps the most powerful challenge to the traditional social order of the age. "Ikki" means a confederation. There were many in 16th century Japan, most in the Kinai, notably in Iga, where no daimyo or lord exercised dominance. They existed as a commune, with the peasants led by the areas jizamurai, yeomen warriors. They sprung up elsewhere from time to time, but were usually isolated and crushed within a couple years (the exception being Iga, which managed to be "overlooked" for decades and generally only consisted of a small area, not even a whole province. The "Ikko" were a religious sect of Buddhism. I won't go into all their beliefs and their history right now, whats important is that in the 15th century it began reaching out to the peasantry. A union was formed between some Ikki and the Ikko religious sect and an Ikki, working in the name of the Ikko, managed to take control of the province of Kaga. With the tithes from this land the Ikko grew great in the 15th century and other Ikki began joining. Thus the Ikko-Ikki is a loose patchwork of numerous Ikki's united behind the Monshu of the Ikko sect, the closest, perhaps, Japan had to a Pope figure. The fortified temples, or Jinai, of the Ikko-Ikki that began springing up across central and eastern Japan became central trading sites and became quite powerful, crosses between temples, fortresses, and cities, thus the Monshu was able to exercise considerable influence and could call on a sizeable army of warrior monks when he needed them. Sorry if all this is confusing. Hopefully it'll all make sense as things progress.)