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Soon after arrival the little princess had her hair shorn and was renamed Tenshu Hotai and was mentored by the Abbess [[Naizan]]. According to [[Richard Cocks|Richard Cocks's]] Diary, [[William Adams]] traveled with Captain Saris through Kamakura in [[1616]] on their way to visit Ieyasu in Edo. Cocks had been at Osaka Castle and knew that Hideyori’s daughter was safe at Tokeiji. He wrote, “It is a sanctuary & no [one] may take her out.”

Soon after arrival the little princess had her hair shorn and was renamed Tenshu Hotai and was mentored by the Abbess [[Naizan]]. According to [[Richard Cocks|Richard Cocks's]] Diary, [[William Adams]] traveled with Captain Saris through Kamakura in [[1616]] on their way to visit Ieyasu in Edo. Cocks had been at Osaka Castle and knew that Hideyori’s daughter was safe at Tokeiji. He wrote, “It is a sanctuary & no [one] may take her out.”

Once she became Abbess Tenshu, she was kept busy with religious studies, prayer, writing letters and poetry. She was in constant touch with the head priest of [[Engakuji]] across the way, communicated by letters with the well-known priest [[Takuan|Takuan Soho]], and continued to be in close touch with Sen-hime. Abbess Tenshu is known for her strong stand during the [[Hori]] Incident in [[1642]] when Daimyo [[Kato Akinari]] of [[Aizu]] sent his men to Tokeiji. When they demanded to enter the convent to take the Hori clan women the abbess answered that she would kill herself before giving them over, so the men left. Through Sen-hime’s insistence Kato Akinari was punished. Above all, Abbess Tenshu succeeded in arranging with the Shogun to keep Tokeiji protected as a sanctuary with extraterritorial rights throughout the whole Tokugawa era.

Once she became Abbess Tenshu, she was kept busy with religious studies, prayer, writing letters and poetry. She was in constant touch with the head priest of [[Engakuji]] across the way, communicated by letters with the well-known priest [[Takuan Soho|Takuan Sôhô]], and continued to be in close touch with Sen-hime. Abbess Tenshu is known for her strong stand during the [[Hori]] Incident in [[1642]] when Daimyo [[Kato Akinari]] of [[Aizu]] sent his men to Tokeiji. When they demanded to enter the convent to take the Hori clan women the abbess answered that she would kill herself before giving them over, so the men left. Through Sen-hime’s insistence Kato Akinari was punished. Above all, Abbess Tenshu succeeded in arranging with the Shogun to keep Tokeiji protected as a sanctuary with extraterritorial rights throughout the whole Tokugawa era.

Among the treasures at Tokeiji, there is a small lacquered box that would have been used for communion wafers. At the time of the battles at Osaka, there were [[Christianity|Christians]] living at the castle to escape the growing persecution. It is possible that a [[Jesuit]] priest gave this to the little princess before she came to Tokeiji.

Among the treasures at Tokeiji, there is a small lacquered box that would have been used for communion wafers. At the time of the battles at Osaka, there were [[Christianity|Christians]] living at the castle to escape the growing persecution. It is possible that a [[Jesuit]] priest gave this to the little princess before she came to Tokeiji.