Kakusan-ni

Kakusan-ni (Japanese: , August 10, 1252 – November 15, 1306), also known as Kakusan Shidō (覚山志道), was a Japanese Buddhist nun and widow of Hōjō Tokimune (1251–1284), the eighth regent of the Kamakura shogunate. She was the founding abbess of Tōkei-ji temple in Kamakura, noted for its long history as a refuge for women seeking divorce from their husbands. Her many other names included and the posthumous name of Chōon’in. Early life and family Lady Horiuchi was born in 1252 to the powerful Adachi clan. Her father was Yoshikage, the commander of Akita Castle; her mother was the daughter of Hōjō Tokifusa. She was the last of Yoshikage’s eleven children, according to Lineages of the Higher and Lesser Aristocracy. After her father died in 1253, she was raised by her older brother Adachi Yasumori, who succeeded Yoshikage as head of the clan and as her guardian. Lady Horiuchi and Tokimune, her cousin and future husband, were likely well acquainted from a very young age; Tokimune himself was born at the Adachi residence in Kamakura. Marriage and child