Odaichi
There are many examples of women from noble backgrounds whose beauty did not necessarily lead to happiness, but rather to misfortune, especially in the turbulent times of history, when their beauty led not only to their own misfortunes, but also to the misfortunes of the people they loved.
The period from the second half of the Muromachi period to the Azuchi-Momoyama period is known as the Warring States period. There were wars spreading everywhere as military generals vied for supremacy. Ichi (1547-1583), a woman of great beauty, was born into the family of Oda Nobuhide, lord of Owari (Aichi Prefecture), at the height of the Sengoku period. Her eldest brother was the famous Oda Nobunaga, to whom Ichi was thirteen years younger. Oda Nobuhide had five other daughters. As a child, Ichi was very sweet and lovable, and her gentle and cheerful personality made her a favorite of many people. As she grew older, her beauty became more and more radiant, earning her the title of the most beautiful woman in the world, and she became the center of attraction for young generals. Nobunaga Oda, her older brother, was also particularly fond of her sister.
Ashi, at the age of 16, obeyed her brother's arrangement and married Nagamasa Asai, a powerful family and lord of Kita-Omi. Nagamasa was 18 at the time, a young military general of fine appearance and stalwart and open-mindedness. He loved Ichi with all his heart and did not take a concubine, and the couple lived an enviable life of love. Because she lived in the city's Kotani Hall, she was honored as Lady Kotani. Her marriage was a strategic one, but she was given a happy life.
This happiness did not last long, however, when an event common to the Warring States period occurred. Nobunaga put a plan to conquer the Asakura clan in Echizen on his agenda and began to prepare for military action. On the other hand, Asai Nagamasa, who had a marriage alliance with Nobunaga, took his father Hisamasa's advice and decided to rely on the Asakura clan, which had been an ally since ancient times, and prepared to intercept Nobunaga's return from behind when he attacked the Asakura clan. Unexpectedly, this news was told to his brother Nobunaga by his wife Ichihime. She sent a bag of beans to Nobunaga, which were threaded together with a string and tied tightly at the mouth of the bag. Nobunaga received it and immediately realized that Asai was going to join forces with Asakura and pin down himself, so he quickly withdrew his troops and averted a dangerous disaster just in time. In 1573, the last bastion of the Asai clan, Kotani Castle, was sacked, and Nagamasa and his father disemboweled themselves. At that time, Ichi asked to be martyred, but Nagamasa refused to allow it. He first entrusted his two boys to escape, and then sent someone to return Ichi and his three daughters to Nobunaga Oda. Nobunaga was furious at the betrayal of Asai Nagamasa, whom he had always trusted and to whom he had given his beloved sister in marriage. A year later, Nobunaga ordered his subordinate Hashiba Hideyoshi to capture Ichi's two young sons and execute them, then sent Ichi and his three daughters to his brother, where Ichi lived in solitude for 10 years.
In 1582, the Honnoji Rebellion took place. Oda Nobunaga was forced to commit suicide because of a plot by his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide, and this event shaped Ichi's fate. After Nobunaga's death, a number of generals asked to marry Ichi in order to protect her and her three daughters, the most enthusiastic of whom were Hashiba Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuya. Ichi hated Hideyoshi, who had killed her two sons, and thus married Shibata Katsuya, Hideyoshi's antagonist. At the time, Ichi was 36 years old and already a mature woman, but she had lost none of her beauty. Shibata Katsuya had begun to age (61 years old), and the age difference between them was as great as that between father and daughter. Katsuya was ecstatic to have gotten the Ichi of his dreams. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, hated Katsuya for taking Ichi away from him, and raised an army to attack Katsuya. Katsuya is defeated by Hideyoshi at Bitch Lake. In the end, he committed suicide with Ichi in Kitanosho.
The ordinary woman who was uncontested in the world, with no special talents, not to mention any sins, but only because of her God-given noble birth and extraordinary beauty, actually led to the misfortune and destruction of herself and her family. Ichi's tragedy has been repeatedly depicted in many novels, plays and movies, and has y touched the hearts of people. Ichi's portrait has been passed down, and her elegant looks have been handed down to this day.
Chacha, the eldest daughter
Yodo-kun (1567----1615) was born in the Warring States period. Caught by a rocky fate, she eventually became the concubine of the supreme ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After Hideyoshi's death, she introduced her son, Toyotomi Hideyori, to succeed Toyotomi Hideyoshi and played with power as she pleased. At that time, the Tokugawa were already under the rule of the Tokugawa. However, Yodo-kun, out of her blind maternal love and vanity for her son Hideyori, was unable to see the changes of the times, and lost the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), which was the decisive battle for the world. She defended the castle of Osaka and delayed the war from winter to summer, and when the soldiers finally came to the castle, she and her son committed suicide by climbing up to the burning Tenshukaku Pavilion on the castle tower. The death of this mother and son marked the official beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Born by the trickery of history and died against the tide of history, Yodo-kun was also one of the tragic women. But history has been merciless in its judgment of her. Giving her a negative evaluation such as capriciousness, arrogance, extreme selfishness and vanity, spoiling her own children, and the embodiment of power lust, it classified her as a bad woman. Evil woman and so on.
Yodo-kun's nickname was Chacha. Her mother was Ichi, the most beautiful woman in the Warring States period, and her father was Asai Nagamasa, the lord of Kotani Castle in Omi. Her parents had two sons and three daughters, and Chacha was the eldest of the three. Asai Nagamasa was killed when he was forced to rebel against Oda Nobunaga, Ichi's brother. Yodo-kun was six years old at the time. Oda Nobunaga protected Ichi's three sisters, but authorized Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) to gruesomely kill the two boys. Fate is unpredictable, though common in the Warring States period, but to be the wife of the man who murdered your parents and young brothers and to bear him children is something not only Chacha but anyone could not have predicted.
The turnaround for mother and daughter came 10 years after the loss of Kotani Castle, when Ichi took her three sisters and remarried to Katsuya Shibata, the lord of Echizen's Kitasho Castle, in 1582. Chacha was 16 years old at the time. But the smooth sailing did not last long, and the following year, when Shibata Katsuya was killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ichi allowed the three sisters to escape from the burning palace, while she herself killed herself along with her husband, Shibata Katsuya.
The three sisters grow up under Hideyoshi's protection. When Hideyoshi, who had been passionately in love with Ichi in the past, saw Chacha, who retained Ichi's grace and beauty in her body, he forcibly took her as a concubine. Hideyoshi has many side chambers in addition to his main wife, Anaina. However, due to Chacha's delicate and radiant youthful charms, as well as the fact that Chacha had the blood of his past lord Oda Nobunaga in her, Hideyoshi doted on her and accommodated her whims. Later on, something happened that fueled her anger ----- and she became pregnant with Hideyoshi's child. At that time, Hideyoshi was already 50 years old. For has never had a child Hideyoshi, really like a clear sky thunder, happy to go up to the sky. The world's dominant master was more indulgent to Cha Cha, he became a confused father. She had Hideyoshi build a palace for her and her children in Yodo (near the current Fushimi-ku district of Kyoto), and Chacha became known as Yodo-kun
She died soon after the birth of her first child. But soon she was pregnant with a second child, Hideyori Toyotomi. Hideyoshi doted on Hideyori in an extraordinary way. Before he died, Hideyoshi's only thought was of Hideyori, and he died repeating the words "Take care of Hideyori" to the important ministers who came to him.
Hideyori's birth and Hideyoshi's death turned Chacha into a tough mother. When Hideyori became lord of Osaka Castle, she began to intervene in politics. But she did not do so for her own lust for power, but for Hideyori, and did so because she loved Hideyori. At the same time she tried desperately to educate Hideyori in order to raise him to be the world's greatest monarch. In reality, Hideyori bears no resemblance to his father and is a dull-witted man. But she was blinded by her love for Hideyori, and lacked a calm observation and sober understanding of Hideyori. Her excessive expectations of her son and her fantasies of raising the world's first monarch involved many people in a senseless war with the Tokugawa, causing the war to be prolonged and causing many people to make needless bloodshed, and eventually she and her son walked up the blazing Tenshoukaku to kill themselves, ending the lives of their mother and son.
Her life and death are a reflection of the Warring States period itself. For Yodo-kun, whether judged good or bad, she was a great flower of renown who added luster to the final period of that turbulent era of the Warring States .........
The second daughter, Hatsu, whose real name was Asai Hatsu, was a noblewoman in Japan during the Warring States period. Her father was Asai Nagamasa, a daimyo of the Warring States period, and her mother was Oda Ichi, sister of Oda Nobunaga. Her sister was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sidekick Yoden (Chacha), and her sister was Tokugawa Hidetada's main wife, Shogenin (Ae).
She was born in Kotani Castle in Omi Province, where her father, Nagamasa, and her uncle, Nobunaga, fought against each other for many years, and finally Kotani Castle was captured in 1573, and she, along with her mother and younger sister, escaped and was returned to the Oda family.In 1582 her mother remarried to Shibata Katsuya, and the four of them traveled to the castle of Kitanosho in the country of Echizen, and in 1583 Hashiba Hideyoshi took Kitanosho, and when Katsuya and Ichi died, the three daughters were placed under the care of Hideyoshi. In 1587, she married her cousin, Kyogoku Takaji, and had no children with him; in 1600, during the Battle of Sekigahara, Kyogoku Takaji sided with Ishida Mitsunari, but when Otsu Castle, to which he belonged, was besieged, he defected to the Eastern Army, and after the battle, was transferred to Obama Castle in the country of Wakasa.
As Hatsu was barren herself, she asked her sister Aie to take Hatsuhime as her adopted daughter when she gave birth to her fourth daughter, Hatsuhime, and married Takaji's heir, Kyogoku Tadataka, in 1609, when Takaji died, and Hatsu became a nun under the name of Tsunekoin. When the Toyotomi and Tokugawa families were at odds with each other, Tsunekoin traveled between her sister and nephew on one side, and her sister's husband's family on the other, building bridges of peace between the two families. However, her wish was not fulfilled, and in 1615, during the Osaka Summer Battle, Mrs. Yodo and Toyotomi Hideyori both killed themselves, and Hideyori's son Kunimatsu, who was born to a concubine, was also executed. Hideyori's daughter survived under the protection of the Tsunekoin, but was eventually ordered by the shogunate to become a monk.
After the fall of the Toyotomi family, Tsunekoin was taken hostage by the Kyogoku family and sent to live in Edo for the rest of his life, where he died in 1633 at the age of 65, and was buried at Tsunekoji Temple in Wakasa Province (in present-day Kohama City, Fukui Prefecture) in accordance with his wishes.
The third daughter was born in 1571 to Asai Nagamasa, the second daughter of the lord of Omi Koya Castle, in the domain of the lord, and was named Ae, alias Tatsuko, Toko, and Kodo. Her mother, Yuichi, was ordered by her brother, Oda Nobunaga, to marry Nagamasa in order to harmonize her relationship with the Asai and Asakura clans, and she had three daughters: her eldest son, Manbokumaru, and her three sons, Chacha (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sidekick, Yodogun), Yuichu, and Kodo. Soon after, Nobunaga's relationship with Asai and Asakura deteriorated, and he sent troops to conquer them several times. In the first year of the Tensho era, when Kotani Castle fell, Nagamasa, the father of the three Asai sisters, committed harakiri and sent the children, including Ichi and Kotoku, back to Nobunaga's residence in Kiyosu Castle to be raised by his uncle, Nobunaga Oda of Kiyosu Castle. In 1582, Ichi remarried to Shibata Katsuya, who was the founder of Oda Nobutaka, and the three sisters moved with their mother to Kitasho Castle; only half a year later, the castle was captured by Hashiba Hideyoshi, who was the founder of Hidenobu, a three-hundred-fold master of the law, and Ichi committed suicide with her husband, leaving the ten-year-old Kodokoro and the three sisters in the hands of Hideyoshi.
When she was 16 years old, Hideyoshi betrothed the orphaned daughter of the Asai clan to Issei Saji and Kuro Ichisei, the son of Nobunaga's sister, Inu, and the lord of 60,000 koku in Owari's Ono-gun; however, in less than a year, Hideyoshi confiscated the Saji's domains, and the young Governor was divorced from his husband, Issei.
At this time, the Kotoku's sister Chacha became Hideyoshi's concubine and was sick with pregnancy, and the Kotoku came to visit; soon Tsurumatsu was born, and Hideyoshi demanded that the Kotoku remarry his own stepson, Hidekatsu Koyoshi. Hidekatsu was in fact the son of Hideyoshi's sister, and was named after Ishimatsu Maru, who was born to Hideyoshi's concubine during the Nagahama Castle era and died young.
Hidekatsu was first lord of Kameyama Castle, then transferred to Kofu-chu (Kofu City) due to the small size of the castle, and then to Gifu Castle at the request of Hidekatsu's biological mother. Shortly after his marriage to Kodokoro, Hidekatsu accompanied the army to Korea and died on the island of Toshima in the 20th year of the Tensho era (1592). Kodokoro, who was informed of her husband's death, was already pregnant at the time.
After the death of Tsurumatsu, the first son of the Toyotomi clan, Yododen gave birth to a second son, Hideyori. Considering the future of the family, Hideyoshi decided to form a marriage relationship with the Tokugawa clan, which was the most powerful at the time, and in 1596, the young governor married Ieyasu's third son, Hidetada, who was 17 years old at the time, and 23 years old at the time, and was renamed Yuetsu, which means "given to Edo.
The marriage resulted in the birth of three men and five women: Chihime, Juhime, Katsuhime, Nagamaru, Hatsuhime, Takechiyo, Kunimatsu, and Kazuko. Among them, Nagamaru died at the age of 2, the eldest daughter Chihime married Hideyoshi's son Toyotomi Hideyori as his wife, and the fifth daughter Kazuko became after Emperor Mizuo's Nakamiya, Emperor Meisho's birth mother, the second son Take Chiyo that is later the third generation of the General Iemitsu. In addition, the name of the small governor of the time in the river and with Hidekatsu between the daughter of the perfect child, the perfect child foster with the river and the sister Yoden, and later married to Sekigahaku Kujo Kanetaka's son of the Nakano Tadahori - soon Tadahori to the Sekigahaku.
Jealous of her husband Hidetada's sidekick, she expelled the Ooku's daughter, Nakanaka Shizuku, who bore Hidetada's son, from the Ooku, and sent the innocent child out of Edo to become the stepchild of Bokujo Masamitsu. She hated Iemitsu, her first son, and expected her second son, Tadanaga, to become the Shogun's heir, so Iemitsu's nursemaid, Kasuga, played an important role in the selection of the third Shogun.
The great influence Iemitsu gave to the Tokugawa Shogunate was also reflected in his honorific title. She was known as "Daigodai," which was a higher title than "Odaisho," the honorary title of the shogun's wife.
On September 15 of the third year of Kan-ei (1626), Omodai Yueto died in Edo Castle at the age of 54 after a long illness. Buried in Takanoyama Okunoin, dharma name Shogenin Shojo and Kohin Kiyoshi big sister.
Hokujo Masako (1156--1255)
Minamoto Yoritomo (1156--1255) was the first wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo (1156--1255), the founder of the Kamakura Shogunate, one of the earliest samurai regimes in Japan, as well as the mother of Minamoto Yorike (1156--1255) and Minamoto Mitsushimo (1192--1255), the second shogun. He died seven years later in 1199 at the age of 53. The cause of his death is unknown. Some say he fell to his death from a horse, while others say he was poisoned by drinking water and cursed by the dead, all of which is a mystery. After the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo, the power was transferred to the Hojo clan, which was Masako's mother's family, and in 1199, Minamoto no Yoritomo and Masako's eldest son, Minamoto no Yorike, became the second shogun. In 1199, Minamoto Yorinaga, the eldest son of Minamoto Yoritomo and Masako, became the second shogun. However, the plan failed, and Yorinaga and Kitajo Masako's father, Kitajo Tokimasa, her maternal grandfather, were ousted from the Shogunate and imprisoned in Izu Shuji Temple, where they were killed the following year. 1203, Minamoto Mitsunomasa, the younger brother of Yorinaga, was placed in charge of the Shogunate by Kitajo Tokimasa and Kitajo Masako. Minamoto no Mitsunomiya was a puppet of the Hojo clan for several years, but on the way to the Kamakura Hachimangu festival in 1219, Minamoto no Mitsunomiya was attacked and killed by Baidō Kōkō, the orphaned son of Minamoto no Yorinomiya's older brother. After the death of his father, Minamoto no Yorike, Bessho grew up under the watchful eye of his grandmother, Hojo Masako, but he became convinced that his father's death was due to Minamoto no Mitsunomo's conspiracy, and sought revenge.
The Minamoto clan, which was founded in Kamakura Hachimangu Shrine, came to an end after only 17 years. After that, the Hojo clan's power was openly recognized in history. Bessho was arrested and executed
While Hojo Masako was an unfortunate woman who experienced the tragedy of her husband's death by accident and the death of her beloved son and grandson, sympathy for her is almost unheard of throughout history, and there is little sympathy for her at all
The past history of Hojo Masako is characterized as: she was a jealous woman with a stubborn personality, who killed her own son and grandson, not to mention her enemies, in order to satisfy her own lust for power. her own son and grandson were killed, and later went so far as to exile her own father, a rare woman of Huai.
Is she really a bad woman? Jealousy is common to all, not only to women but also to men. The problem is in the reason for its manifestation. At that time, people in society due to birth, identity, social status, upbringing, face and other constraints have to be submissive, do not dare to show their own. Masako, on the other hand, did not hide herself among these people, and showed and treated herself honestly
Masako and Minamoto Yoritomo married when she was 20 years old and Minamoto Yoritomo was 30 years old. Minamoto no Yoritomo was the eldest son of the Minamoto clan, the losing side in the Genpei War, and an exiled sinner. Masako's father was adamantly opposed to their marriage. Masako ran away from home and joined Yoritomo. Masako and Minamoto Yoritomo shared the same **** and endured hardships until the Kamakura Shogunate was created. It was easy to usher in the time when Minamoto was in power. But it turned out that her husband was having an affair with another woman behind Masako's back. Masako would never forgive Yoritomo for sacrificing everything for him. In addition, Yoritomo took advantage of the fact that Masako was no longer at home during her labor to bring a woman named "Kame-ma" from Izu to Kamakura for pleasure. When word of this reached Masako, she was furious. She sent her samurai to raid Kame-maeda's secret quarters, destroying the house and leaving him in a terrible state, and Kame-maeda was almost killed. In addition, she sent the seven-year-old son of Yoritomo's lover, Oshinbashi, to Kyoto to become a monk. These things spread to the world, and Masako became the first person in Japan who was typical of jealousy.
Masako's behavior would not have been well received from the point of view of the virtue of a wife who tolerates her husband's brutality and capriciousness. However, such a bold and frank expression of self is undoubtedly a feat. Born and raised in the Kanto region, Masuzu was not of noble birth and did not receive a Kyoto-style education and upbringing. She was really a woman who grew up in a more free-spirited environment in the countryside. The fact that Te was so intensely self-expressive cannot be explained entirely by jealousy. Rather, it had to do with her origins, her upbringing.
The deaths of her sons, Minamoto Yoriya and Minamoto Mitsushige, and her grandson, Bettang Kōshō, cannot be blamed on Masako alone. Behind the tragedy of her entire family, the ambitions of her mother's family, the Hojo family, played a role far greater than her presence. Masako had cut her hair and become a nun after the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo, and people called her General Ni. The fact that it still stood in the foreground and commanded could not, of course, be ruled out as a matter of personal will, but beyond that it could be said to be a clever tactic by the Hojo family to avoid confrontation with their political opponents.
Masako Hojo, who had suffered so much, did not spend her days weeping and weeping, but rather, she reigned supreme over the Takeshi family's regime. She was a strong mother, a rarity in Japanese history.
Shizuku Mitsumae (early Kamakura period)
Not only has she remained in the history books of Japan as the concubine of the tragic warlord Minamoto no Yoshitsune and as a beautiful dancer, but she is also one of the historical figures who have been loved by the Japanese people since time immemorial.
She appeared on the stage of history during the short years between the fall of the Heike family and the transition to the Kamakura Shogunate. At that time, there was a group of dancers called "Shirakabaeko" in the capital city. "Hakubetsuko" were dancers who wore the white gowns of the young nobles of the Heian Dynasty and gold-colored tatami hats. The dancers were loved for their elegant and graceful dance with white sleeves. Originally, they seemed to be witches who danced at shrines, but these beautiful women disguised as men may have caught on to the fashion and were gradually invited to dance at the homes of nobles and samurai. In the Heike era, the famous "Hakubutsuko" were Gion, Gioness, and Buddha Mikado, who were loved by Heike Mori.
Shizuku Mizen's background was not very noble. Her mother was a Shirakabaeko called Iso Zenji, and she learned the dance from her mother when she was a child. At the age of 14, she danced for the rain at the Shinzen-en Garden. Perhaps it was her perfect dance that moved the heavens, and rain fell in torrents. From then on, she was known as a great dancer.
At the age of 15, she had a chance encounter with Minamoto no Yoritomo's younger brother, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who had returned triumphantly from destroying the Heike clan at Tanoura. Shortly after she became Minamoto Yoritomo's concubine, Minamoto Yoritomo was pursued by his brother Minamoto Yoritomo on suspicion of treason. She also followed Yoshitsune as he fled to Mount Yoshino, which was forbidden to women, and was captured by Yoritomo's soldiers after she and Yoshitsune parted in tears.
Yoshitsune's concubine Shizu appears in the Genpei Sengoku Jidai (Chronicle of the Success and Decline of Genpei) on his triumphant return to Kyoto after winning the Battle of Tanoura (April 24, 1185), when Yoshitsune and Shizu were living a sweet and happy life of love. On November 3 of the same year, Yoshitsune escaped from Kyoto with Shizu. After the disaster in Ogopo, Shizu and Yoshitsune spent the night together at Tennoji Temple. After that, Kyoto issued an order to search for Yoshitsune, and they fled to the snowy Yoshino Mountains. Later, Yoshitsune felt that it was dangerous to walk in the snow with a woman, so he decided to send her to the place of his mother, Alum Zeni, gave her a lot of gold and silver, and sent a servant to escort her out of the mountain. Unexpectedly, the money was robbed by the servant on the way down the mountain, and Shizu had to return to her mother in Kitashirakawa alone.
Shizu was soon summoned by the authorities (Roppolo) for questioning, and on March 1, 1186, the second year of the Bunji era (1186), mother and daughter were sent to Kamakura. After many interrogations, Shizu still said she did not know where Yoshitsune had gone, and the shogunate could not get a clue. Yoritomo was furious, but there was nothing he could do.
Shizu was a dancer who specialized in the Shirakatsu odori (a song and dance popular in the late Heian and Kamakura eras, in which a woman wearing a koowukan in the shape of a naginata and a white-sheathed maki-katana danced and sang the Imago odori song), and Yoritomo's wife, Masako Kitajo, and his eldest daughter, Daihime, demanded that she perform it. Shizu refused repeatedly, but on April 8, she performed at the Wakkan-do Hall of Tsuruoka's Hachijo Shrine.
"Snowing on the mountains of Yoshino, I can't find my whereabouts, my dreams are broken ...... I wish the past would become the present ......" Shizu sang as she danced. "Shut up! In front of me, how dare you dance in love with the rebel Yoshitsune, and the so-called 'wishing that the past will become today' means that you hope that I will fall and Yoshitsune will regain power." Yoritomo said furiously. Thanks to Masako who came out to persuade him, he was saved from a big disaster.
By this time, Shizu was pregnant, and Yoritomo ordered that if a boy was born, he would be killed. Masako and Jing both hoped to give birth to a girl, this year leap July 29, Jing gave birth to a boy, according to the order to get killed. Because of Masako's sympathy, Shizu left Kamakura on September 16th to return to Kyoto.
After returning to Kyoto, Shizu missed Yoshitsune, who had fled to Hiraizumi, Oshu, day and night. One day, she and her maid, Koto, traveled to Idea Bridge in Shimosoda Shimobemi Village (present-day Shimobemi, Sowa-cho, Ibaraki Prefecture), and heard that Yoshitsune, her beloved, had committed suicide at his residence in Ichikawa in April of the fifth year of the Bunji era (1189) in a battle of war, and she was so saddened that she wandered around on the bridge, weeping. Soon afterward, she became a nun at the local Takayanagi Temple in order to mourn Yoshitsune's death. She died on September 15 of the same year at the age of 22 after falling ill. She was buried at Takayanagi Temple by her maid Ginjo.
Saito Gueidiao (1535-1612?).
Saito Michizo, her father, and Ogimi no Kata, her mother, were married to Oda Nobunaga as his wife in 1549. Since she married from Mino, she was later commonly known as Nouhime, also known as Heru Yamaden. Since her mother, Ogimi no Kata, was originally named Akechi, there is a theory that she and Akechi Mitsuhide were cousins, but this theory is only speculation by some scholars and has no solid evidence.
While she was the wife of Oda Nobunaga, a great warlord of the Warring States period, there are few historical records of her activities. Legend has it that before she was married, Dosan gave her a short sword, stating that if Nobunaga was really a fool, she could kill him, but Gueydiao told Dosan, "Perhaps this sword of mine will end up pointing at my father," which is more than just a legend. There is also a legend that Nobunaga used a backstabbing scheme to spread false news to Guei Die, pointing out that someone in the Saito family would conspire against him, and Guei Die ended up writing a letter to her mother's family to send back to her father, causing Michizo to have an innocent retainer killed, but of course, this is also just a legend.
Because Saito Michizo was not happy with his son Yoshitaka, he intended to give the country of Mino to his son-in-law Nobunaga, and from then on, he attracted murder and was killed in battle during the Battle of Nagara River. Nobunaga then fought many wars against the Saito family in the name of revenge for Michizo, and finally obtained Mino in 1567. Since then, however, news of Minohime has completely disappeared from history. It is said that Nobunaga had already obtained Mino, so she was killed (or exiled) because her existence was no longer worthwhile, or that Nobuhime had already died of an illness before that time. Since she did not bear Nobunaga a son or daughter, and history books tend not to record many concubines who did not bear children, she in particular is not recorded at all, so that the rest of her life is a mystery.
Some novelists have written that Nobunaga and Nouhime ****ed to death at the time of the Honnoji Incident, but this is not true, because it is recorded that the woman who was killed at Honnoji Temple at that time was a maid named Nouhime, which happens to be pronounced the same way as Nou, so it was used as an excuse. The name "Noh" and "Nou" are pronounced the same, so it was used as an excuse. The women who escaped from Honnouji Temple were sent back to Azuchi Castle, and later, Kenshu and Shigo welcomed Nobunaga's wives and concubines from Azuchi Castle to Hino Castle. Among these concubines, there was one called "Azuchi-dono", who was taken care of by Oda Nobuo, and this Azuchi-dono passed away in 1612 under the name of "Yohoin-dono Tojin Myoho-daishi", and was buried in Daitokuji Sominen-in in Kyoto.
Since Nobuo could not have taken care of his father's concubine for no reason, some believe that the so-called Mrs. Azuchi was Nobunaga's main wife, Nohime. However, Nobunaga's other beloved concubine, Nabe, also died in this year and was buried in Daitokuji Somyoin, so there are those who do not believe that this Yohoin was Nobuhime. In short, the life of Nobuhime is a complete mystery, except that she was the daughter of Saito Michizo, married to Nobunaga, and had no children, so it can be said that nothing else is known.
Izumo Aguni (birth and death unknown)
Rumor has it that she was originally a sorceress of Izumo Taisha, the originator of Kabuki. The reason for the original Kyoshijo River is that Izumo's Aguni first performed the "Kabuki Dance" (Toshiki-odori) in this area, and it became famous throughout the country. Yuki Hideyasu called him "the best woman in the world".