[3] In 1591, Hidetsugu and Hidekatsu became adopted sons of Hideyoshi and also became kanpaku (advisor to the emperor) but the relationship between Hidetsugu and Hideyoshi began to deteriorate after his son Toyotomi Hideyori was born, and he was ordered to commit seppuku while his wife and all other women of his household with him were executed beside Sanjo-gawa River.

The harshness and brutality of executing 39 women and children shocked Japanese society and alienated many daimyō from Toyotomi rule.

This temple began with a thatched hut that was built in 1597 in Kameyama, Saga to pray for the soul of Hidetsugu Her husband Yoshifusa died of illness around 1600.

Nisshu had Ondahime, her great-granddaughter and the fifth daughter of Sanada Yukimura, take refuge at her residence at the time of the downfall of the Toyotomi family resulting from the Siege of Osaka in 1615.

Tomo survived the entire period of the fighting states, seeing the rise and fall of the Toyotomi family, the clan that unified Japan before the formation of the Tokugawa Shogunate.