Kamakura new Buddhism regretted the former position to depreciate women and preached to relieve women, and Honen showed deep sentiment against Ama Nyudo, which was seemed to be a slang term for fools, as it were.
鎌倉新仏教は、従来の女性軽視の立場を反省し、女性の救済を説いたが、法然は、当時、愚かものの代名詞の観すらあった尼入道に深い理解を示した。