![]() ![]() As they learn that Nyo-in is away for the moments, they decide to wait for her to come back. When His Majesty arrives, she is in the mountains with Dainagon-no-tsubone (her sister-in-law, a wife of Taira-no-Shigehira), picking flowers and branches of sacred star anise to offer to the Buddha, and gathering kindling and mountain vegetables.Īrriving at Jakkō-in, His Majesty and his attendants meet Awa-no-naishi (a child of the nursemaid of Retired Emperor Go-shirakawa, suckled alongside him) who lives with Nyo-in. ![]() When spring is nearing its end and summer is just around the corner, her father-in-law, Retired Emperor Go-shirakawa (the father of Emperor Takakura), comes in his litter to visit Nyo-in. After the war, she renounced the world and resided in a humble temple, Jakkō-in in Ōhara (located in the northeast of Kyoto), where she devoted herself to serving the Buddha, and praying for her the repose of her deceased family. Although Nyo-in tried to commit suicide by throwing herself in the ocean during the battle, some enemy warriors from the Genji clan pulled her out of the water and saved her life. Kenreimon-in (Nyo-in), a daughter of Taira-no-Kiyomori and also the mother of Emperor Antoku, survived, although her family was vanquished at the Battle of Dan-no-ura. This takes place when the wars between two clans, the Genji (family name: Minamoto) and Heike (family name: Taira) were settled and the Heike Clan was defeated. ![]()
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