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Ōmidaidokoro
''Ōmidaidokoro'' (大御台所) was a title that can only be given to the past ''shōgun''s official widow or retired ''shōgun''{{'s chief consort/wife. These women had an extraordinary or considerable political power behind the scenes, leading much of the court's events and other events that impacted Japanese history. During the Edo period she resided in Ōoku, third corridor (sannomaru). Kamakura period * Hōjō Masako, daughter of Hojō Tokimasa, wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo and mother of Minamoto no Yoriie and Minamoto no Sanetomo * Bomon Nobuko (1193–1274), daughter of Bomon Nobukiyo and wife of Minamoto no Sanetomo * Konoe Saiko (b. 1241), daughter of Konoe Kanetsune, wife of Prince Munetaka and mother of Prince Koreyasu Muromachi period * Akahashi Toshi (1306–1365) wife of Ashikaga Takauji and mother of Ashikaga Yoshiakira * Shibukawa Koshi (1332–1392), daughter of Shibukawa Yoshisue and wife of Ashikaga Yoshiakira * Hino Nariko (1351–1405),wife of Ashikaga Yosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oeyo
, , or : 1573 – September 15, 1626) was a prominently-placed female figure in the Azuchi–Momoyama period and early Edo period. She was daughter of Oichi and the sister of Yodo-dono and Ohatsu. When she rose to higher political status during the Tokugawa shogunate, she took the title of "'' Ōmidaidokoro''". Following the fall of the Council of Five Elders, Oeyo and her sisters were key figures in maintaining a diplomatic relationship between the two most powerful clans of their time, Toyotomi and Tokugawa. Due to her great contributions to politics at the beginning of the Edo period she was posthumously inducted into the Junior First Rank of the Imperial Court, the second highest honor that could be conferred by the Emperor of Japan. Oeyo married three times, first to Saji Kazunari, her cousin, then to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nephew, Toyotomi Hidekatsu. She had a daughter with Hidekatsu named Toyotomi Sadako later married Kujō Yukiie. Her third and last husband Tokugawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hino Tomiko
was a prominent figure during the Muromachi period and the beginning of the Sengoku period. She was daughter to Hino Shigemasa and was the official wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate (at first Tomiko was betrothed to Ashikaga Yoshikatsu the seventh shōgun but Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10), and the mother of Ashikaga Yoshihisa, the ninth ''shōgun''. Her efforts during the succession dispute are seen as one of the causes of the Ōnin War and led to the beginning of the Sengoku period. Early life Hino Tomiko was born into the Hino family, a powerful family whose women became consorts to many previous Shoguns. These familial connections enhanced the Hino's power to control the Shogunate Court. Tomiko was important to strengthen the Hino family relationship with the Shogunate and grow ever more powerful. When Tomiko's social and political status emerged after her marriage to Ashikaga Yoshimasa, she decided to stay active in the shogun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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{{Commons Words and phrases by language Words Words Words A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hino Tokimitsu
Hino may refer to: Places Estonia * Hino, Põlva County * Hino, Võru County ** Lake Hino Japan * Hino, Shiga * Hino, Tokyo * Hino, Tottori ** Hino District, Tottori ** Hino River Transportation * Hino Motors, a Japanese truck manufacturer owned by Toyota ** Hino Pakistan * Hino Station (other), railway stations in Japan: ** Hino Station (Nagano), a railway station Susuka, Nagano, operated by Nagano Electric Railway ** Hino Station (Shiga), a railway station operated by Ohmi Railway ** Hino Station (Tokyo), a railway station operated by East Japan Railway Company Other uses * Hino (surname), a Japanese surname * Hé-no Hé-no is a thunder spirit of the Iroquois and Seneca people, Seneca people. He is also known as Heno, Hino, Hinu or Hinun. Hé-no lives in the cloud of the far west, and has rainbow as his wife, and is accompanied by the eagles Keneu and Oshadag ..., also called Hino, an Iroquois thunder spirit See also * Heino (other) {{disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Hidetada
was the second ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate. Early life (1579–1593) Tokugawa Hidetada was born to Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Lady Saigō on May 2, 1581. This was shortly before Lady Tsukiyama, Ieyasu's official wife, and their son Tokugawa Nobuyasu were executed on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, who was Nobuyasu's father-in-law and Ieyasu's ally. By killing his wife and son, Ieyasu declared his loyalty to Nobunaga. In 1589, Hidetada's mother fell ill, her health rapidly deteriorated, and she died at Sunpu Castle. Later Hidetada with his brother, Matsudaira Tadayoshi, was raised by Lady Achaa, one of Ieyasu's concubines. His childhood name was , later becoming . The traditional power base of the Tokugawa clan was Mikawa. In 1590, the new ruler of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi enlisted Tokugawa Ieyasu and others in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azai Nagamasa
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period known as the brother-in-law and enemy of Oda Nobunaga. Nagamasa was head of the Azai clan seated at Odani Castle in northern Ōmi Province and married Nobunaga's sister Oichi in 1564, fathering her three daughters – Yodo-dono, Ohatsu, and Oeyo – who became prominent figures in their own right. Nagamasa became one of Nobunaga's enemies in 1570 due to the Azai alliance with the Asakura clan, and fought against Nobunaga at major battles including the Battle of Anegawa. Nagamasa and his clan were destroyed by Nobunaga in August 1573, and he committed '' seppuku'' during the siege of Odani Castle. Early life Azai Nagamasa was the son of Azai Hisamasa, from whom he inherited clan leadership in 1560. Hisamasa had been compelled to step down by many of his retainers in favor of his son, Nagamasa. Hisamasa retired, and would later commit suicide along with his son in August 1573. Nagamasa successfully battled both Rokkaku Yoshikat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Yoshiteru
, also known as Yoshifushi or Yoshifuji, was the 13th ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1546 to 1565 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the eldest son of the 12th ''shōgun'', Ashikaga Yoshiharu, and his mother was a daughter of Konoe Hisamichi (later called ''Keijuin''). When he became shogun in 1546 at age 11, Yoshiteru's name was Yoshifushi (sometimes transliterated as Yoshifuji); but some years later in 1554, he changed his name to the one by which he is conventionally known today. His childhood name was Kikubemaru (). His younger brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth ''shōgun''. Family * Father: Ashikaga Yoshiharu * Mother: Keijuin (1514–1565) * Wife: daughter of Konoe Taneie * Concubines: ** Kojiju no Tsubone ** Karasumaru-dono * Children: ** Teruwakamaru (1562–1562) ** nun in Kyokoji temple ** nun in Kyokoji temple ** Ashikaga Yoshitaka ** Oike Yoshitatsu by Karasumaru-dono Installed as ''shōgun'' After his father, Yos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konoe Hisamichi
, son of Konoe Masaie, Masaie, was a ''kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Muromachi period (1336–1573). He held a regent position kampaku from 1493 to 1497 and from 1513 to 1514. Konoe Taneie, Taneie was his son. A daughter of his was a consort of samurai Hōjō Ujitsuna. Another daughter, later known as Keiju-in, was the wife of Ashikaga Yoshiharu and the mother of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ashikaga Yoshiaki. References * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Yoshiharu
was the twelfth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p. 332. He was the son of the eleventh ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshizumi. His childhood name was Kameomaru (亀王丸). On 1 May 1521, after Shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate and Yoshitane withdrew to Awaji Island, the way was clear for Minamoto-no Yoshiharu to be installed as shogun as he enters Kyoto. Not having any political power and repeatedly being forced out of the capital of Kyoto, Yoshiharu retired in 1546 over a political struggle between Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Hosokawa Harumoto making his son Ashikaga Yoshiteru the thirteenth shogun. He dies on 20 May 1550. Later in 1568, supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shogun. From a western perspective, Yoshiharu is significant, as he was shogun when the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Yoshizumi
was the 11th ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshinori.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). His childhood name was Seikō (清晃), Yoshizumi was first called Yoshitō (sometimes translated as Yoshimichi), then Yoshitaka. Yoshizumi was adopted by the 8th ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshimasa.Ackroyd, p. 298; n.b., ''Shōgun'' Yoshimasa was succeeded by ''shōgun'' Yoshihisa (Yoshimasa's natural son), then by ''shōgun'' Yoshitane (Yoshimasa's first adopted son), and then by ''shōgun'' Yoshizumi (Yoshimasa's second adopted son) He was installed by Hosokawa Masamoto as '' Sei-i Taishōgun''. He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshitane, who became ''shōgun'' for a second period of time. Two of Yoshizumi's sons would themselves become ''shōguns''.Ackroyd, p. 385 n104; excerpt, "Some apparent contradictions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Yoshihisa
was the 9th ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p. 331. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshimasa with his wife Hino Tomiko. Since the almost 30-year-old ''shōgun'' Yoshimasa had no heir by 1464, he adopted his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshimi to succeed him. However, Yoshihisa was born in the next year starting a struggle for succession between brothers that erupted into the Ōnin War starting in 1467, beginning the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In the middle of hostilities, Yoshimasa retired in 1473, relinquishing the position of ''Sei-i Taishōgun'' to Yoshihisa. Family * Father: Ashikaga Yoshimasa * Mother: Hino Tomiko * Wife: Shōun'in, daughter of Hino Katsumitsu * Concubine: daughter of Tokudaiji priest * Child: a daughter Events of Yoshihisa's ''bakufu'' Yoshihisa's shogunal administration begins in 1479 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Ashikaga (足利) may refer to: * Ashikaga clan (足利氏 ''Ashikaga-shi''), a Japanese samurai clan descended from the Minamoto clan; and that formed the basis of the eponymous shogunate ** Ashikaga shogunate (足利幕府 ''Ashikaga bakufu''), a Japanese shōgun dynasty *** Ashikaga era (足利時代 ''Ashikaga jidai''), a period of Japanese history related to the eponymous dynasty * Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara) (足利氏 ''Ashikaga-shi''), a Japanese samurai clan descended from the Fujiwara clan * Ashikaga, Tochigi (足利市 ''Ashikaga-shi''), a city in Japan ** Ashikaga Station (足利駅 ''Ashikaga eki''), a train station in the city of Ashikaga ** Ashikaga District, Tochigi (足利郡), a former district located in Tochigi ** Ashikaga Junior College (足利短期大学 ''Ashikaga tanki daigaku''), a school in the city of Ashikaga ** Ashikaga Institute of Technology (足利工業大学 ''Ashikaga kogyō daigaku''), a school in the city of Ashikaga ** Ashikaga murder case, a murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
