Chūjō-hime

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Chūjō-hime (中将姫)(753-781) was a daughter of the court noble Fujiwara no Toyonari who escaped persecution at the hands of her step-mother by becoming a nun at the Taima-dera in Nara. There she took on the name Zenshin-ni.

She is featured in a number of plays, legends, and other stories. According to these, she embroidered the temple's mandalas and other religious images, with the aid of the bodhisattva Kannon. In some of the legends, she is said to have been an incarnation of the bodhisattva herself.

[edit] References

  • "Chūjō-hime." (1985). Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.
  • Papinot, Edmond (1910). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.


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