Awatayama mausoleum

…With the influence of the Saionji clan of the Kanto region, she was highly revered as the mother or grandmother of four emperors from Gofukakusa onwards, but she died on September 9, 1272, at the age of 68, and was buried at Nanzen-in Temple in the eastern outskirts of Kyoto. The tomb is now called Awatayama Mausoleum. Gosaga-in left the selection of the Chiten no Kimi up to the Kamakura Shogunate before he passed away, so the Shogunate asked Omiya-in about the late Emperor's true intentions, and as a result Emperor Kameyama became the Chiten no Kimi. …

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…関東申次西園寺家の勢威を背景に，後深草以降4代の天皇の生母あるいは祖母として敬重されたが，正応5年9月9日68歳で没し，京都東郊南禅院に葬られた。いま粟田山陵という。後嵯峨院は〈治天の君〉の選定を鎌倉幕府にゆだねて崩御したため，幕府は故院の真意を大宮院に問い，その結果亀山天皇が〈治天の君〉となった。…

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