Kakushinni - Secretly

A nun of the Jodo Shinshu sect in the Kamakura period. She was the youngest daughter of Shinran. Her mother was Eshin-ni. A surviving letter addressed to Kakushin-ni states that she was the Ogozen. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Koga Michimitsu (1187-1248) and was called Hyoe no Kami no Tsubone. She became a concubine to Hino Hirotsuna and gave birth to Kakue (1239-1307). After Hirotsuna's death, she remarried Ononomiya Zennen and gave birth to Yuizen (1266-1317). After Shinran's death, a temple was built on land owned by Zennen by a disciple living in the Kanto region, but the land was later inherited by Kakushin-ni. After Zennen's death, Kakushinni donated it to the shrine and decreed that her descendants would manage the shrine instead of her disciples. This position was called the Rusushiki position, and after Kakushinni's death, a dispute arose between Kakue and Kakunyo, father and son, and Yuizen (the Yuizen Incident) over this position.

[Mizumaro Ishida June 20, 2017]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

鎌倉時代の浄土真宗の尼僧。親鸞(しんらん)の末娘。母は恵信(えしん)尼。現存する覚信尼あての書状には王御前とある。久我通光(こがみちみつ)（1187―1248）に女房として仕え、兵衞督局(ひょうえのかみのつぼね)といった。日野広綱(ひのひろつな)の妾(しょう)となり、覚恵(かくえ)（1239―1307）を生み、広綱の死後、小野宮禅念(おののみやぜんねん)と再婚、唯善(ゆいぜん)（1266―1317）を生んだ。親鸞没後、関東在住の門弟により廟堂(みょうどう)が禅念所有の土地に建てられたが、のち覚信尼はその土地を譲られた。覚信尼は禅念の死後、これを廟堂に寄進し、廟堂の管理は門弟にかわって自分の子孫があたることを定めた。これが留守職(るすしき)といわれるもので、この職をめぐって覚信尼の死後、覚恵・覚如父子と唯善の間で争い（唯善事件）が起こった。

［石田瑞麿　2017年6月20日］

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