Kitayama-in Temple

Japanese: 北山院 - きたやまいん

Year of death: November 11, 1419 (November 28, 1419)
Year of birth: Ōan 2/Shohei 24 (1369)
During the Muromachi period, she was the wife of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Her title was Hino Yasuko. She was the daughter of Hino Sukeyasu, and became the wife of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the third Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate, around the beginning of the Oei era. She was called Shinden and Niidono. In 1406, when Tsuyomon'in, the birth mother of Emperor Gokomatsu, died, she became the quasi-mother of the Emperor. Because of this, Yoshimitsu, as the father of the Emperor, is said to have assumed the title of Cloistered Emperor after he became a monk, and to have run Kitayamadai as a Sen'do. When Yasuko was given the title in 1419, she was given the title of Inji. The title of Kitayama-in was chosen by Yoshimitsu, and on March 23 of the same year, the ceremony to welcome her into the Imperial Court was held with great pomp. However, after Yoshimitsu's death in 1420, she was not treated well by the next Shogun, Yoshimochi, and she spent her later years without the splendor of her past, dying at Kitayamadai Minamigosho. Even after her death, she was not treated as a mother of a nation, her funeral was abbreviated, and she was not subject to any public scrutiny or shame. The Kitayama-tei temple was also disposed of, and around 28th-29th year of the Oei era, the temple was renamed Rokuon-ji (Kinkaku-ji).

(Kazumi Nishio)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：応永26.11.11(1419.11.28)
生年：応安2/正平24(1369)
室町時代,足利義満の正室。日野康子の院号。日野資康の娘で,応永初年ごろ室町幕府3代将軍足利義満の妻となる。寝殿,二位殿と称される。応永13(1406)年,後小松天皇の生母通陽門院が死去した際,天皇の准母となった。このことにより義満は天皇の父として,出家後,自らを法皇に擬し,また北山第を営んで仙洞に擬したといわれる。14年康子が院号宣下を受けるにおよんで院司がつけられた。北山院の院号は義満によって選ばれ,同年3月23日には入内始めの儀が華々しく執り行われた。しかし,15年の義満没後,次の将軍義持からは好遇されず,かつての華やかさのない晩年を送り,北山第南御所で没した。死後も国母に准じた扱いはなされず,葬儀も略式で天下触穢も諒闇もなかったという。北山第も処分され,応永28～29年ごろには鹿苑寺(金閣寺)と号するところとなった。<参考文献>臼井信義『足利義満』

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