Nun Abutsu travelled to Kamakura in 1279 to claim her son's inheritance, died waiting, and the case ended 30 years later

Fujiwara no Tameie (1198 to 1275), son of the poet Fujiwara no Teika, entrusted the Hosokawa estate in Harima province to his eldest son, Tameuji, in 1256. In 1273 he reversed himself. He assigned the estate and family documents to Tamesuke, his son born in 1263 to Nun Abutsu, citing Tameuji's conduct. He wrote to Abutsu that if a dispute arose she must take the document to both the civil and the military courts. Tameie died in 1275, and Tameuji refused to give up the estate. The two courts treated changed wills differently. Court law favoured the original will. The shogunate's code of 1232 let a parent revoke a bequest to an unfilial child, and gave priority to the latest will. In 1279 Abutsu went in person to Kamakura to press her son's claim. Her account of the journey and the claim is the Izayoi nikki. She died about 1283 without a verdict. In 1286 a ruling of the retired emperor Kameyama gave ownership to Tameuji. The case ended only in 1313, between Tameuji's son Tameyo and Tamesuke, with a judgment that recognised Tameie's last will. Tamesuke founded the Reizei house, the only one of the family's poetry schools still in existence. In 1981 the family put its archive into a public foundation, the Reizeike Shiguretei Bunko.