Although she was the daughter of Kanrei (shogunal deputy) Katsumoto HOSOKAWA, since she was terribly plain-looking, she became a nun at Ryuan-ji Temple, which her father constructed.
管領細川勝元の娘でありながら、はなはだ不器量だったゆえに父が建立した龍安寺の尼僧となっていた。