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• Sakai Hoitsu
  ...ving himself from the lordly succession due to poor health, and taking the tonsure in [[1797]], Hôitsu took on the monastic name Monsen Kishin, and set himse
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• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  ...which Yoshiyasu and his wife [[Soshi Sadako]] ([[1661]]-[[1713]]) took the tonsure.<ref>Clements, 610.</ref>
  5 KB (694 words) - 06:51, 19 June 2020
• Empress Wu
  ...[649]], all of the other concubines who had not bore him children took the tonsure and became nuns; Wu somehow managed to remain at (or return to) Court, and
  5 KB (801 words) - 00:06, 22 January 2015
• Emperor Go-Mizunoo
  ...rent mothers. Of those who did not succeed him as ''tennô'', most took the tonsure, becoming ''[[monzeki]]'' (門跡) abbots or abbesses of prominent Buddhist
  5 KB (677 words) - 20:11, 30 September 2017
• Taira no Kiyomori
  ...ill in [[1168]] and formally retired from official service; he took the [[tonsure]], becoming a lay-monk and taking the name Jôkai. He retained considerable
  5 KB (832 words) - 09:34, 19 May 2020
• Tachibana Nankei
  ...anese poetry. In [[1796]], he was called to official service, and took the tonsure shortly afterwards, continuing to write and to study medicine. Sequels to h Nankei took the [[tonsure]] on [[1796]]/5/11, adopting the Buddhist name Baisen<!--梅仙-->, turning
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• Zeami
  ...in [[1422]] by his son, [[Kanze Motomasa]]. That same year, he took the [[tonsure]], and began conveying his secrets to his sons more fully. In [[1429]], Zea
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• Shimazu Yoshihisa
  Takahisa took the [[tonsure]] in [[1566]], making Yoshihisa head of the Shimazu clan at that time. Yosh
  16 KB (2,547 words) - 06:43, 13 February 2020

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