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In the middle of the Kamakura period (1192-1333), under the
reign of the Hojo and the Adachi after wiping out Miura Clan,
a daughter named Horiuchi Dono was born in Adachi Clan.
Her father was Adachi Yoshikage and her mother was a niece of Hojo Masako.
When she was 10 years old, she got married to Hojo Tokimune, 11 then.
Since Tokimune became a regent at the age 18, he put all his heart and soul
into preventing the Mongolian invasion until his death at the age 34 in 1284.
During that time, Tokimune and his wife deepened their faith in Zen under the
influence of Tokimune's father Tokiyori. Furthermore, successive wars, natural
disasters and corruption of in the religious world increased not only people who
found salvation in Kamakura Buddhism but also Zen priests from China who were
naturalized in Japan. Zen temples such as Kenchoji Temple, Engakuji Temple and
Jochiji Temple were built in this period. Tokimune became a priest before nearing his end.
His wife, too, became a nun and was named Kakusanshido from Mugakusogen.
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Shokozan Tokeiji Temple was founded by Kakusanni in 1285. Its principal religious symbol
is Shakanyorai. This temple was named Matsugaoka Palace on behalf of Yodoni V, daughter of
Emperor Godaigo, after she entered the nunnery. Then this was known as a prestige nunnery.
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| Tokugawa Ieyasu took a great deal of trouble over the child of Toyotomi Clan he destroyed in Summer Battle in Osaka (1615). Ieyasu could not bear killing the child of the enemy he defeated because she was the adapted-daughter of his grand daughter Princess Sen. Eventually he wiped out the Toyotomi Family when he made her become a nun.
Tenshuni XX, 7 years old then, was left in the temple. Asked by Ieyasu for her wishes, she applied for continuing the extraterritoriality and was accepted. That had a major effect on Tokeiji Temple to exercise the right throughout Edo period (1603-1868). |
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