Honjo Daikon Medium Gift Bag

The crest of daikon radish. The design and the name of this crest are based on 'Mon Den' (encyclopedia of family crests). Keishoin was the mother of the fifth shogun, Tsunayoshi Tokugawa. She decided to use the daikon radish crest so that she would not forget that she was a daughter of a radish vendor. The Honjo clan, who was founded by her younger brother, Munenobu, and became the lord of Tamba-Miyazu domain with 70,000 koku, inherited this daikon radish crest (according to 'Family Crests Reflecting Japanese Minds' by Yoshiaki Kusunoki, p.211). Yorisuke Numata wrote in his 'Japanese Crests Study' that the theory that Keishoin was a daughter of a radish vendor is not credible because her mother's family background is clear in the genealogy.