1567, Daimyo of Kita Omi Nagamasa Asai Is Oda Nobunaga City , my sister By marrying with, he formed an alliance with the Oda clan.
Three daughters were born between Nagamasa Azai and Nobunaga's younger sister, Ichi.
My daughter's name is Chacha, Hatsune, Jiang ..
As the niece of Nobunaga Oda, who promoted the unification of the world, the three sisters Asai, who experienced the destruction of the daimyo family twice and the death of her parents, were deeply involved in the battle for hegemony over the world. I would like to write about Jiang.
Before writing about Jiang, let's touch on the other brothers.
Chacha Is later Kampaku, Toyotomi Hideyoshi In the concubine of Toyotomi Hideyori She will give birth to.
first Is Toyotomi Hideyoshi Kyogoku Takatsugu He married, but he had no children. Finally, the third daughter, E, is Kazunari Saji ⇒ Hidekatsu Hashiba ⇒ Hidetada Tokugawa Married to the third shogun Iemitsu is born. It is said that Jiang (Oeyo-in) was the only one in her regular room who became the birth mother of the shogun for 15 generations.
The ancestor of Emperor Taisho's empress, Sadako
In E, there is one daughter with Hidekatsu Hashiba and five daughters with Hidetada Tokugawa, each of whom is married to a well-known family.
Sadako, who was born with Hidekatsu, was born and raised under her aunt Chacha (Yodo-dono). Her daughter-in-law is also Kujo Yukiie by the measure of tea. I will marry you. The Kujo family is one of the five regents of the Fujiwara Seki family and is a prestigious family.
When the Toyotomi clan was destroyed, Sadako became Hidetada's adopted daughter, but after that she was instrumental in bridging the Kuge and Tokugawa clan.
This Kujo family is the family tree of Empress Teimei Kujo Setsuko of the Emperor Taisho, and when you climb the family tree, you will reach Sadako. Emperor Taisho ⇒ Emperor Showa ⇒ Emperor Imagami Therefore, the ancestor of His Majesty the Emperor was Jiang.
Chihime was at the mercy of the times
The eldest daughter of Hidetada Tokugawa, Senhime Is said to have inherited her beauty from her grandmother, Oichi.
Senhime marries her firstborn, Hideyori, at the behest of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the world of time. It is said that Hideyori trimmed Chihime's hair from her hands at the seijin-shiki ceremony, which is a female adult ceremony.
When the Toyotomi clan was destroyed, Tokugawa Fudai's chief retainer, Honda Tadakatsu's grandson, Tadatoki I will marry you. Again, the couple will have a good relationship, but Tadatoki will die of illness. She then returned to Edo and ended her life without a wife anywhere.
Tamahime who broke her body due to a series of births
Her second daughter, Tamahime, is Maeda Toshinaga's mother, Maeda Matsu . In exchange for her nose hair daimyo Tari always married.
At this time she is only 3 years old and will always marry.
The couple is very good and she gives birth to eight children in nine years, starting at the age of fifteen. However, when he gave birth to his eighth child, he died as it was.
Katsuhime is about to be killed by her husband who suffered from her heart
Her third daughter, Katsuhime, marries her paternal cousin, Tadanao Matsudaira.
Tadanao Matsudaira is the cousin of Tokugawa Iemitsu and Mitsukuni. He was Tadanao, who had a promising future, but his reputation declined due to the lack of control of his vassals in the domain and the failure of the Siege of Osaka.
Gradually, he became alienated from the shogun, and Tadanao, who was sick, turned to Katsuhime. Katsuhime survived, but after this incident Hidetada retired Tadanao and made her Katsuhime and her children live in Edo. It seems that the two did not divorce, and her firstborn son, Mitsunaga, took over the domain.
The first princess who died without being seen by her husband
The four daughters, Hatsuhime, married Kyogoku Tadataka.
However, her husband and wife are not on good terms, and Hatsuhime died of illness at the age of 29, but her husband, Tadataka, went to a sumo tour without seeing it. Due to this marital relationship, her first princess's funeral refused to attend the Kyogoku family and was held only by the Tokugawa family.
Kazuko who connected the Emperor and the Tokugawa family
When the world of Tokugawa became rock solid, her youngest daughter, Kazuko, was born.
It was Emperor Gomizuo that Kazuko married. Until then, there were many troubles between the Emperor and the Shogun family, and after Kazuko's arrival, he worked hard to mediate between the two families and took over both families.
It seems that the relationship between the shogun family and the emperor family has improved, partly because the couple are on good terms.
Hidetada is said to have never had a formal concubine since he married Jiang.
One factor may be that Ei was older and was an older sister's wife. Between the two, she was blessed with child treasures as described above and served as the general's only birth mother.
Even after Hidetada's death, Hidetada did not have a concubine and ordered him to be buried in the place where Jiang sleeps after his death, so it seems that the couple's relationship was good.