# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eshin-ni
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:45:25.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eshin-ni"
name: "Eshin-ni"
slug: "eshin-ni"
description: "Eshinni was a woman who lived in the Kamakura Period and was the wife of Shinran, founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Japanese Buddhism. All that is known about Eshinni comes from the letters she wrote to her daughter, Kakushinni, during her final years. They are now preserved at Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist nun. wife of Shinran"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eshin-ni.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1182"
deathDate: "1268"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.286718666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshinni"
    title: "Eshinni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%81%B5%E4%BF%A1%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "恵信尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%83%A0%E4%BF%A1%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "惠信尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6582141"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations