Honkōin

Honkōin (born c. 1306) was the wife of Ashikaga Tadayoshi, co-director of the early Muromachi shogunate. A daughter of Shibukawa Sadayori, her secular name is unrecorded. In 1347, at about forty, she bore him a son, Nyoimaru.

During the Kannō Disturbance of 1350–1352 she lost both husband and son. She inherited his Akatsuka estate in Musashi, took the tonsure and prayed for their souls; one account places her death around 1363, and she was dead by 1383.