Background
No authentic dates are available. Records show that she was the daughter of Kagemori Adachi, who married Tokiuji Hojo, to whom she bore a son, Tokiyori, who became Shilcken (Prime Minister) of the Kamakura Shogunate.
No authentic dates are available. Records show that she was the daughter of Kagemori Adachi, who married Tokiuji Hojo, to whom she bore a son, Tokiyori, who became Shilcken (Prime Minister) of the Kamakura Shogunate.
She was a thrifty woman, hardworking and admired as a model woman in feudal society. Under her strict discipline, her son grew into a wise administrator. It is said that she taught her son the thrifty way of life by showing him how even a scrap of paper could be put to use for patching a tattered screen.