Taikenmon'in (待賢門院) spent her last years at the temple as a nun by the name of Shinnyohō (真如法).
During her long stays at Hōkongō-in it is said she carried on an affair with the poet Saigyō (西行法師), who had a residence beneath Mt. Ogura in Sagano (小倉山).
#西行法師