Diet of Take-hime, the adopted daughter of the Tokugawa Shogunate and her rites for avoidance of bad lack:

Results of the investigation and the research of hairs and artifacts buried under Yuten-ji Temple Amida Hall

Abstract

The Amida Hall located on the grounds of Yuten-ji Temple in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward is said to have been donated by Take-hime, the adopted daughter of Tsunayoshi, the fifth Tokugawa Shogun, in 1724 as a ward against evil. Temple records support this and also state that a stone box containing the hair of Take-hime was buried under the floor beneath the shumidan (the altar on which the Buddhist statue rests). Temple renovations in 2014 made it possible to examine the floor beneath the Amida hall. A small box made with two pyroxene andesite was discovered and the author examined the contents in detail. As a result, we excavated short bundles of hair, fragments of a paulownia board, lumps of white powder and a square mirror and other artifacts thought to have belonged to Take-hime from a pile of earth several centimeters in thickness at the bottom of the box. We will report the results of archeological and anthropological research we conducted on these objects in this paper.